Johan Adrian Jacobsen
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.
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