# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/teuku-jacob
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:03:49.308Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/teuku-jacob"
name: "Teuku Jacob"
slug: "teuku-jacob"
description: "Teuku Jacob was an Indonesian paleoanthropologist. As a student of Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald in the 1950s, Jacob claimed to have discovered and studied numerous specimens of Homo erectus. He came to international prominence as a vocal critic of scientists who believed remains discovered in Flores belonged to a new species in the genus Homo, Homo floresiensis."
tagline: "Indonesian paleoanthropologist (1929-2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Indonesia"
  isoCode: "ID"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-12-06"
deathDate: "2007-10-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.023868
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuku_Jacob"
    title: "Teuku Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "تيوكو چاكوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuku_Jacob"
    title: "Teuku Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuku_Jacob"
    title: "Teuku Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuku_Jacob"
    title: "Teuku Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuku_Jacob"
    title: "Teuku Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuku_Jacob"
    title: "Teuku Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%83"
    title: "Якоб, Теуку"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357640"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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