Abraham Jacobi

Abraham Jacobi ( born May 6, 1830 in Hartum, † July 10, 1919 in Lake George, New York) was the founder of pediatrics in the United States and opened the first children's hospital.

Life

Abraham Jacobi visited in Minden high school and after high school studied medicine at the universities of Greifswald, Göttingen and Bonn, where he in 1851 received his doctorate of medicine.

Shortly after his graduation, he joined the revolutionary movement in Germany. In school Buried to be a member of the Communist League, he was imprisoned. The Cologne Communist trial ended on 12 November 1852 his acquittal, and Jacobi emigrated in 1853 via England to the United States.

1860 Jacobi was awarded the first U.S. Department of Pediatrics at New York Medical College as a professor of children's diseases, for which the activity at Mount Sinai Hospital belonged. He himself described the development in a lecture on 23 September 1904 the International Congress of Arts and Sciences in St. Louis:

"In the United States, Pediatrics was taught by the professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children. (...) Which takes place in the 1860 reorganization of the New York Medical College in the East 13th Street made ​​the establishment of a special clinic for childhood diseases possible. Instead of Community Clinic for women (sic) and children as they Bedford, Gilman and GT Elliot had been held in their respective schools, a special chair for teething was built. As our civil war prompted the closure of the school in 1865, I transferred the children's polyclinic at the University Medical College, and in 1870 to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. "

From 1867 to 1870 he headed the medical faculty of the City University of New York. From 1870 to 1899 he was Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University. Abraham Jacobi resulted in the entire medical education, a teaching at the bedside.

Jacobi was a co-founder of the American Journal of Obstetrics. He founded the Pediatric Section of the American Medical Association, and he was the first president of the American Pediatric Society.

His first wife Fanny Jacobi, born Meyer (1833-1856), was a sister of Sophie Boas, born Meyer (1828-1916), the mother of anthropologist Franz Boas, who had also attended the Gymnasium in Minden. From Jacobi's 1873 closed marriage with the medical examiner Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi ( born August 31, 1842 † June 10, 1906 ) was born the daughter of Marjorie McAneny. Mary Putnam was the first woman who was admitted to the École de Médecine in Paris L' for study.

Naming

• The Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York is named after Abraham Jacobi.

Works (selection)

• Cogitationes de vita rerum naturalium. Cologne 1851 ( Diss inaug. Physiol. )
• Contributions to midwifery, and diseases of women and children. With a report on the progress of obstetrics, and uterine and infantile pathology in 1858. Noeggerath By Emil and Abraham Jacobi. H. Baillière, London / New York 1859
• Dentition and its Derangements. New York, 1862.
• The Raising and Education of Abandoned Children in Europe. New York 1870.
• A Treatise on Diphtheria. Wood, New York 1880.
• Therapeutics of infacy and chilhood. Lippincott, Philadelphia 1898
• Treatment of infant and childhood. Springer, Berlin, 1898.
• The current state of Pediatrics and its relations with the neighboring fields of knowledge. Springer, Berlin, 1905 reprint under the title. History of pediatrics and its relationship to the other arts and sciences. In: Theodore Hellbrügge (ed.): Founder and basics of Pediatrics. Hansi cal Verlagskontor, Lübeck 1979, p 71-112.
• Memoirs of the Prussian prisons. In: Marx- Engels -Jahrbuch 5, Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1982, pp. 362-382

• Diseases of Children. An authorized translation from " The German Clinic " under the general editorial supervision of Julius L. Salinger, MD With thirty -four illustrations in the text. D. Appleton and Company, New York and London, 1910.