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Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Danish novelist, poet, scientist (1847-1885)
OverviewAI-generated
Jens Peter Jacobsen was a Danish author whose literary career began in 1870. He was born on April 7, 1847, and died on April 30, 1885. His published output includes the works *Samlede værker*, *Samlede skrifter*, *Niels Lyhne*, *Briefe*, and *Aperçu systématique et critique sur les Desmidiacées du Danemark*.
Records from Open Library list 90 works associated with Jacobsen, while Crossref and Europeana Sparql each cite five works. His writings have been categorized with tags such as "danish," "spoken word," and "Audiobook." The author is referenced by 74 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1847-04-07 ) 7 April 1847, Thisted , Denmark
- Died
- 30 April 1885 (1885-04-30) (aged 38), Thisted, Denmark
- Occupation
- Writer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jens
- Family name
- Jacobsen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Thisted
- Place of death
- Thisted
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Copenhagen
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- botany
- Movement
- literary realism
- Image
- JP Jacobsen.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jens Peter Jacobsen
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- date of birth
- 1847-04-07
- date of death
- 1885-04-30
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- P6944
- Jens Peter Jacobsen
- manner of death
- natural causes
- described at URL
- adl.dk/adl_pub/forfatter/e_forfatter/e_forfatter.xsql?ff_id=6
- name in native language
- Jens Peter Jacobsen
- ethnic group
- Danes
- topic's main category
- Category:Jens Peter Jacobsen
- start of work period
- 1870-00-00
- influenced by
- Émile Zola
- interested in
- Charles Darwin
- has works in the collection
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- P8168
- Gregoria
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Works in European collections
5 objects attributed to Jens Peter Jacobsen, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern Breakthrough.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jens Peter Jacobsen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.