Object record
Paul used the name Paul in family, commercial and civic life. The civil register preserves his full forenames Jacob Paul; his gravestone later uses Yaakov, the Hebrew form of Jacob.
SeriesCivil, property and municipal records
English translation
Birth register no. [entry], Halberstadt, 21 October 1876. Before the undersigned registrar appeared today the merchant Adolf Reichenbach, personally known, resident in Halberstadt, of the Jewish religion, and reported that his wife Goldine Reichenbach, née Marcuse, of the Jewish religion and living with him, gave birth at their residence in Halberstadt on 20 October 1876 to a male child who received the given names Jacob Paul. Read aloud, approved and signed: Adolf Reichenbach. The registrar: [signature].
English reading prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive from the German civil record.
- Archive reference
- HLBR-CIVIL-07
- Date
- 20 October 1876
- Medium
- Not yet recorded in the public catalog
- Physical dimensions
- Not yet recorded in the public catalog
- Digital image
- 3260 × 4220 pixels
- Evidence status
- Historical civil record; publicly displayed with source attribution from the supplied family research copy
- Source and provenance
- Family-held scan supplied during an in-person visit to the Halberstadt archive and museum; the image bears the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Halberstadt watermark.
- Custody history
- A separate custody history has not yet been recorded; see the source and credit fields.
- Credit
- Historisches Archiv der Stadt Halberstadt; Reichenbach Family Archive
- Rights
- No separate reuse license is recorded; contact the archive before reuse.
- Image treatment
- 300 dpi presentation derivative; orientation corrected and blank scanner overscan conservatively cropped. No tonal, textual or generative alteration.
Permanent citation
How to cite this object
Chicago-style suggested citation
Reichenbach Family Archive. “Paul Reichenbach’s birth entry.” 20 October 1876. HLBR-CIVIL-07. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/hlbr-civil-07.
Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/hlbr-civil-07