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Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853 Risøya, Tromsø - 1947) was a Norwegian ethnologist and explorer. He began collecting ethnographic specimens as a sailor of a whaling ship. In 1881 he was hired by the Ethnological Museum of Berlin|Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde]] to gather ethnographic and other specimens on the west coast of North America, also Korea, Japan, Siberia, and the South Sea Islands. He exhibited a collection representing 25 non-European peoples at the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. These works were the basis of development of the Field Columbian Museum. ==Biography== For seven years, beginning in 1867, Jacobsen was member of a whaling crew on the Spitsbergen and Murman coasts. In 1876/7 he traveled along the west coast of South America. Next he visited the Arctic regions, bringing back hundreds of ethnographic specimens to Europe. In 1881 Jacobsen was engaged by the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde to gather ethnographic and other specimens on the west coast of North America, also Korea, Japan, Siberia, the South Sea Islands, etc. This was part of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, organized by American anthropologist Franz Boas and sponsored by American industrialist/philanthropist Morris Jesup, president of the American Museum of Natural History. Jacobsen and others spent seven years in this work, and he collected in all over 18,000 specimens. He was part of a large group of scientists including Americans and Russians to study the peoples on both sides of the Bering Straits to assess relations among their cultures. Subsequently he made ethnographic collections in Germany and Norway. At the Columbian Exposition of 1893, Jacobsen exhibited an ethnographic collection from 25 non-European peoples. This formed the nucleus around which developed the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johan Adrian Jacobsen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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