Johan Adrian Jacobsen

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Johan Adrian Jacobsen

Johan Adrian Jacobsen (born October 9, 1853 on Risøy near Tromsø , † January 18, 1947 in Tromsø) was a Norwegian ethnographer and explorer. As a captain and self-taught ethnologist, he worked for the ethnological museums in Hamburg and Berlin and as an "advertiser" for Carl Hagenbeck's Völkerschauen in Hamburg. During the World's Columbian Exposition , Jacobsen exhibited a collection of around 600 objects from 25 non-European cultures on behalf of Carl Hagenbeck. This became a cornerstone of the collection of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago .

His travels took him to Scandinavia, North America, South America, Russia and Southeast Asia.

Expeditions

  • 1881–1883 ​​Northwest coast of North America on behalf of the Berlin Museum of Ethnology
  • 1884–1885 Russia, Siberia, Sakhalin, Manchuria, Korea, Japan, San Francisco, Victoria, British Columbia
  • 1886–1887 West Coast of South America
  • 1887–1888 Lake Banda (Indonesia), Java, Australia, New Guinea on behalf of the Berlin Museum of Ethnology

Honors

Jacobsenweg in Hamburg-Stellingen was named after Johan Adrian Jacobsen in 1964.

Fonts

  • Capitain Jacobsen's journey on the north-west coast of America 1881–1883: for the purpose of ethnological collections and inquiries, together with a description of personal experiences. Edited for the German readership by Adrian Woldt. Spohr, Leipzig 1884 ( digitized version ); Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 2013.
  • Travel to the island world of the Banda Sea. Mitscher & Röstell, Berlin 1896 ( digitized ).
  • Johan Adrian Jacobsen: Voyage with the Labrador Eskimos, 1880–1881. English translation of Hartmut Lutz's diary. Polar Horizons, March 2014, ISBN 978-0-9936740-5-1 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-9936740-1-3 (PDF).

literature

  • Anne Dreesbach: Tamed Wild: The display of "exotic" people in Germany 1870-1940. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37732-2 .
  • Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Ciuliamta Akluit / Things of Our Ancestors: Yup'ik Elders Explore the Jacobsen Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. University of Washington Press, Washington 2005, ISBN 0-295-98471-6 .
  • Hilke Thode-Arora: Around the world for fifty pfennigs. The Hagenbeckschen Völkerschauen. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-593-34071-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History . Field Museum website. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
  2. ^ The streets of Stellingen . new creation. Retrieved May 19, 2013.