Abraham Jacobi
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Jacobi in 1912
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| Born |
May 6, 1830 Hille, German Confederation |
| Died | July 10, 1919 (aged 89) Bolton Landing, New York, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Fanny Meyer Jacobi (1833−1851) Mary Putnam Jacobi |
| Children | Marjorie McAneny |
Abraham Jacobi (May 6, 1830 – July 10, 1919) was a pioneer of pediatrics, opening the first children's clinic in the United States. To date, he is the only foreign-born president of the American Medical Association. He helped found the American Journal of Obstetrics. He is regarded as the father of American pediatrics.
Born in Hartum (now a district of Hille), Westphalia, he was the son of a poor Jewish shopkeeper and his wife who educated him at great sacrifice. He attended the gymnasium in Minden. After graduating there, he studied medicine at the universities of Greifswald, Göttingen, and Bonn, receiving an MD at Bonn in 1851. Shortly thereafter, Jacobi joined the revolutionary movement in Germany (see Revolution of 1848). He was detained in prisons at Berlin and Cologne in 1851, and eventually convicted of treason and imprisoned at Minden and Bielefeld until his discharge in the summer of 1853. Upon release, Jacobi sailed to England, where he stayed with both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In the following autumn he moved to New York where he settled as a practicing physician.
He remained in contact with Marx and Engels and in 1857 Jacobi was involved in founding the New York Communist Club.
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