Johan Adrian Jacobsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johan Adrian Jacobsen

Norwegian ethnologist and explorer.

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1853

Place of Birth: Tromsø municipality, Northern Norway, Norway

Date of Death: 18-Jan-1947

Profession: anthropologist, explorer

Nationality: Norway, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853 in Risøya, Tromsø – 1947) 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.