16 Facts About Abraham Jacobi

Abraham Jacobi was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics.

Abraham Jacobi was a key figure in the movement to improve child healthcare and welfare in the United States and opened the first children's clinic in the country.

Abraham Jacobi is regarded as the Father of American Pediatrics.

Shortly thereafter, Jacobi joined the revolutionary movement in Germany.

Abraham Jacobi was detained in prisons at Berlin and Cologne in 1851, where he was acquitted as defendant in the Cologne Communist Trial in 1852.

Abraham Jacobi soon became a key figure in the movement to improve child healthcare and welfare in the United States.

Abraham Jacobi remained in contact with Marx and Engels and in 1857 Jacobi was involved in founding the New York Communist Club.

Abraham Jacobi taught at Columbia University for 30+ years from 1870 to 1902.

Abraham Jacobi later moved to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he established the first Department of Pediatrics at a general hospital.

Abraham Jacobi was president of the New York Pathological and Obstetrical Societies, and twice of the Medical Society of the County of New York, visiting physician to the German Hospital beginning 1857, to Mount Sinai Hospital beginning 1860, to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the infant hospital on Randall's Island beginning 1868, and to Bellevue Hospital beginning 1874.

Abraham Jacobi advocated for birth control and civil service reform, and opposed prohibition.

Abraham Jacobi died on 10 July 1919 at his summer home in Bolton Landing at age 89.

Abraham Jacobi is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Abraham Jacobi's first wife, Fanny Meier, was a sister of Sophie Meyer Boas, the mother of ethnologist Franz Boas, who attended the gymnasium in Minden.

Abraham Jacobi was the very first female student at the Faculte de Medecine de Paris in Paris, France.

Abraham Jacobi contributed chapters on the care and nutrition of children, diphtheria, and dysentery to Gerhardt's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten, and on diphtheria, rachitis, and laryngitis to Pepper's System of Practical Medicine, and has published lectures and reports on midwifery and female and infantile disease, and a number of articles in medical journals.