# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johan-adrian-jacobsen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:08:28.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johan-adrian-jacobsen"
name: "Johan Adrian Jacobsen"
slug: "johan-adrian-jacobsen"
description: "Johan Adrian Jacobsen was a Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer. He is mainly known as a collector of ethnographical objects, and a recruiter of indigenous peoples for the ethnographical shows organized by Carl Hagenbeck, founder of Tierpark Hagenbeck, a zoo in Hamburg. Starting in mid-1881, Jacobsen was hired by the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde to gather ethnographic objects and other specimens. His travels took him from the Arctic to South America, North America, Korea, Japan, Siberia, and the South Sea Islands."
tagline: "Norwegian ethnologist and explorer. (1853–1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adrian_Jacobsen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1853-10-09"
deathDate: "1947-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.871634666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Adrian Jacobsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون أدريان ياكوبسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون ادريان ياكوبسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Adrian Jacobsen"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Adrian_Jacobsen"
    title: "Johan Adrian Jacobsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Adrian_Jacobsen"
    title: "Johan Adrian Jacobsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Jacobsen"
    title: "Adrian Jacobsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Jacobsen"
    title: "Adrian Jacobsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Якобсен, Йохан Адриан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691913"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump