Ehren-Bürger-Diplom für den praktizierenden Arzt ... Jacob Jacobson.

Four pages of richly illustrated parchment, embossed with the seal of the City of Braunsberg, East Prussia (today Braniewo, Poland): On March 8, 1853 the obstetrician and surgeon, Dr. Jacob Jacobson became an honored citizen for his unceasing and professional efforts to stem the spread of a health crisis which had gripped that city.The parchments are encased in a velvet cloth folder with ornate metal emblems attached to the front; the encasement measures 14.75” x 21” x 1.0”.Also included is an official copy of Jacob Jacobson’s doctoral diploma from the Academia Regiomontana (University in Koenigsberg), 1835.digitizedDr. Jacobson was the maternal grandfather of Herbert Spiegelberg, the son of the German Egyptologist Wilhelm Spiegelberg (1870-1930). Herbert Spiegelberg passed on the family heirloom, to his descendents in the United States