Jacob_Freud
Jacob Freud
Father of Sigmund Freud (1815–1896)
Jacob Kolloman Freud (1 April 1815 – 23 October 1896)[1] was the father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
Born in town of Tysmenytsia in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (now in Ukraine),[2] and from a Hasidic background though himself an enlightened Jew of the Haskalah,[3] he mainly earned his living as a wool merchant.[4]