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Hermann Johannes Heinrich Jacobsen

German botanist and gardener (1898-1978)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ125552 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hermann Jacobsen (January 26, 1898 in Hamburg-August 19, 1978 in Kiel) was a German succulent researcher and horticulturist. Jacobsen directed the Botanischer Garten Kiel from 1929 to 1963. The standard author abbreviation H.Jacobsen is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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“Hermann Johannes Heinrich Jacobsen” enters the record as german botanist and gardener (1898-1978). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hermann, Johannes and Heinrich can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1978, 1929, 1963—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1898-01-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hermann, Johannes and Heinrich.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q125552. VIAF identifies the subject as 17599339. The Library of Congress control number is n86817562. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1978, 1929 and 1963.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hermann Johannes Heinrich Jacobsen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.