# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-jacob-ferber
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:33:58.730Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-jacob-ferber"
name: "Johann Jacob Ferber"
slug: "johann-jacob-ferber"
description: "Johann Jacob Ferber was a Swedish mineralogist. He came from a family of scientifically inclined pharmacists. He studied natural history with an emphasis on mineralogy at Uppsala University, where Carl Linnaeus was one of his teachers and supervisor of his thesis. After his graduation, Ferber embarked on an international and largely itinerant career. He held the chair in chemistry and natural history of the Academia Petrina in Jelgava 1774–1783, and was professor of mineralogy in Saint Petersburg 1783–1786. He was elected member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He died in Switzerland in 1790 during one of his many travels."
tagline: "Swedish mineralogist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johann_Jacob_Ferber._Line_engraving_by_C._C._Glassbach_after_Wellcome_V0001888.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1743-08-29"
deathDate: "1790-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.375
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "Johann Jacob Ferber"
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    title: "Johann Jacob Ferber"
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    title: "Johann Jacob Ferber"
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    title: "Johan Jacob Ferber"
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  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johans_Jakobs_Ferbers"
    title: "Johans Jakobs Ferbers"
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    title: "Фербер, Иван Яковлевич"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump