Background
Jacobson was born in Street St. Petersburg, and in 1893 he graduated from Street St. Petersburg University"s Physics and Mathematics faculty.
Jacobson was born in Street St. Petersburg, and in 1893 he graduated from Street St. Petersburg University"s Physics and Mathematics faculty.
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
He was a zoologist at the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was posted to different parts of Russia to study its insects. He published papers mainly on the systematics and zoogeography of Chrysomelidae beetles.
Jacobson"s was first published in 1905 by Devriena, Street St. Petersburg.
The eleventh and last edition appeared in 1915. Many of the fine colour plates were based on Carl Gustav Calwer"s Kaeferbuch, with updates to the names of some of the beetles.
This saving of effort on illustration allowed Jacobson to focus on illustrating species of beetle that had never been illustrated before. The monograph covered over 2000 species.