Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
Danish archaeologist
Died when: 64 years 154 days (773 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (14 March 1821 – 15 August 1885) was a Danish archaeologist, historian and politician, who was the second director of the National Museum of Denmark (1865–1874).
He played a key role in the foundation of scientific archaeology.Worsaae was the first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove C.
J.Thomsen's sequence of the Three-age system: Stone, Bronze, Iron.He was also a pioneer in the development of paleobotany through his excavation work in the peat bogs of Jutland.
Worsaae served as Kultus Minister of Denmark (the cultural and education minister) for Christen Andreas Fonnesbech from 1874 to 1875.
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