About Thomas Jacobsen
Lived 1810 – 1853 (aged 42–43). Thomas Jacobsen was a Danish musical instrument maker.
An 1848 violin by Jacobsen in the National Museum of Denmark. Thomas Jacobsen (1810-1853) was a Danish violin maker who operated his own workshop in Copenhagen from 1846 and was granted status of court violin maker.
Biography Jacobsen was initially apprenticed to a carpenter, Peder Hansen Holm, in Jutland, and then to Niels Jensen Lund in Copenhagen.
In 1841-44, he worked independently as a violin maker in Copenhagen. He then went on a longer journey abroad to further his education, working for among others for Vuillaume in Paris, Back in Denmark, in 1847, he started his own workshop in Copenhagen with status of court violin maker. He died from cholera in the 1853 Copenhagen cholera outbreak.
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Who was Thomas Jacobsen?
Danish violin maker (1810-1853)
When was Thomas Jacobsen born?
Thomas Jacobsen was born in 1810.
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Thomas Jacobsen died in 1853 in Copenhagen.
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Thomas Jacobsen was a musical instrument maker.
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Thomas Jacobsen was Danish.
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· DBpedia: Thomas Jacobsen (violin maker)
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