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Jakob Jakobsen (22 February 1864 — 15 August 1918) was a Faroese linguist and scholar. The first Faroe Islander to earn a doctoral degree, his thesis on the Norn language of Shetland was a major contribution to its historical preservation.
Research-based archive space and radio station in Copenhagen founded in 2016 by Jakob Jakobsen. The space presents historical material - art works, printed matter, and other objects - and invites colleagues and friends to collaborate on investigating the contemporary and critical implications of the historical objects.
Jakob Jakobsen (1965, Copenhagen) is a visual artist, educator and activist. He was part of the Copenhagen Free University (2001-2007), an artist-run institution dedicated to the production of critical consciousness and poetic language through alternative forms of collective knowledge production.
An online facsimile of Jakob Jakobsen's Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland (1928) has now been made available by the Internet Archive. This famous two-volume dictionary was based on Dr Jakobsen's research in Shetland in the 1890s.
His universalizing structuralist theory of phonology, based on a markedness hierarchy of distinctive features, achieved its canonical exposition in a book published in the United States in 1951, jointly authored by Roman Jakobson, C. Gunnar Fant and Morris Halle. [7]
Jakob Jakobsen is a visual artist and writer. Self-organisation has driven his practice throughout, and over the years he has built a number of autonomous institutions such as the Copenhagen Free University, the Hospital Prison University Archive and most recently the Hospital for Self Medication.
During his six-month residency at Flat Time House, starting in April 2013, visual artist Jakob Jakobsen engaged in elaborating possible meanings and consequences of the term Antiknow in the current context of so-called knowledge economy.
