Jacobi, edward

(¤ 1862, † 1915) Dermatologist, among others active in Freiburg/Br, Breslau. Born in Liegnitz/Silesia in 1862, he studied medicine in Freiburg, Breslau, Würzburg and Halle. 1886 doctorate with the topic "On the finer construction of the marrow-containing nerve fibres". 1887 began his dermatological training with Albert Neisser in Breslau. 1889 assistant at the surgical polyclinic in Freiburg. There he held the dermatological lecture. 1890 Habilitation for the subject dermatology and syphilidology. 1902 Appointment as an extraordinary professor for the subject and director of the dermatological polyclinic, which he ran as an independent department from 1899. In 1903 he published an atlas of skin diseases, which became famous for its extraordinary image quality (first use of the Citochrome process for the reproduction of medical images in three-colour printing), was translated into several languages and was one of the most widely distributed medical textbooks of its time. First description of Poikilodermia vascularis atrophicans in 1906.