New-York tribune., 1919-07-12
Exiled From Prussia fo1.
Political Ideals, He Soon
Became Noted Through
out World as Practitioner
succumbs at Lake George
Specialist in Diseases of
Children; His 80 Works
Are Medical Authority

Dr.. Abraham Jacobi, famous in many
lsnds as one of the most eminent medical
practitioners of his day, and one of the
last of the German republican expa-
triates who followed Carl Schurz to
America after the disasters of 1848
died suddenly Thursday night at his
summer home at Bolton Landing, on
Lake George. He was eighty-nine years
old.
kilograms from Lake George stated
that the body would be brought to his
home at 19 East Forty-seventh Street
tomorrow.
The funeral will take place from the
home at o'clock Monday afternoon.
DR.. Jacob was apparently in exec
lent health Until Thursday afternoon.
He tainted at o'clock, and remained
semi-conscious thereafter until his
death at II o'clock that night.
DR.. Francis Huber, former medical
associate, who went with him to Bolton
Landing early in June, was with DR..
jacob when he died.
Caught Fever of Revolt
Abraham jacob was born at Hartum.
In Westphalia, May 6, 1880, and it was
year before the revolutionary era of
1S4S convulsed the Continent that he
began his medical studies at the Uni
versity of Greifswald, to be continued
at G0ettlngen. When the storm broke
the next year he joined the revolution
lists. For this he was arrested and i'm
prisoned at Minden. For two years
he was in solitary confinement. A pc
riod of liberation followed, which he
improved by continuing his studies at
the University of Bonn, where in 1851
he received the degree of M. D. Soon
thereafter he again was arrested and
subjected to imprisonment and trial for
high treason, at Cologne and at Berlin,
until 1853, when he was permitted, with
many compatriots, to come to America
as political exile.
Among his closest friends and as
sociates here was Carl Schurz.
He arrived in New York poor, un-
known, but endowed with genius, and
the last-named fact soon overcame the
others. His ability was speedily rec
ognized and was utilized for the well
fare of the public.
Progress Was Rapid
Before he had been here seven years
uc WOO oppOAitSQ HlOIS VI tIlC OlS-
eases of children-a department of
medicine which he made his lifelong
speciality in the old New York Medical
College. This place he filled with much
success from 1860 to 1865, when he left
it for similar place in the medical
department of New York University,
then called the University of the City
Of New YORK. Five years later he again
removed to the chair of diseases of
children in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, the medical department
Of Columbia University, which he ac-
lively filled until 1902, when he became
professor emeritus.
Fore more than half century he
was leading member of the staff of
Mount Sinai Hospital, and he did long
and valuable service in the German
Hospital and other institutions. For
some years he edited "The American
Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of
Women and Children" was president
of the New York Pathological Society,
the New York Obstetr1cal Society, the
New York County Medical Society, the
New York State Medical Society, the
New York Academy OF Medicine, the
American Pediatric Society, the Asso-
American Climatological Society, and,
at the age of eightytwo, the American
Medical Association.
His private practice was extensive
and most successful. As lecturer and
essay writer he was profuse and con-
vincing. He was the author of num-
Der of books of standard merit: "Den-
tition and Its Derangements," 1862;
"The Raising and Education of Aban-
doned Children in Europe" 1870; "ln.
fant Diet" 1872-1875; "Diphtheria,"
1876; Treatise on Diphtheria," 1870;
Pathology of the Thymus Gland"
1899. Therapeutics of Infancy and
Childhood" 1896-l903; "Intestinal
Diseases" 1909; "Collectanea jacob"
volumes, 1909.
Invited to Berlin
One Of the most significant tributes
paid to him was the urgent invitation,
which was given to him in October,
1893, TO become professor of paedology
in the University Of Berlin, associated
with which was the direction of the
Children's Clinic in the great Charity
Hospital there. This place was offeres