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
- Search for "Jacobsen, Johan Adrian" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Works by and about Johan Adrian Jacobsen in the German Digital Library
- DER SPIEGEL 8/1947
- The man who got the Indians . In: Hamburger Abendblatt (paid online service) , October 9, 2003.
- Johan Adrian Jacobsen on snl.no in the store norske leksikon
Individual evidence
- ^ History . Field Museum website. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
- ^ The streets of Stellingen . new creation. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jacobsen, Johan Adrian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian ethnologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1853 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Risøy near Tromsø |
DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1947 |
Place of death | Tromso |