El Salvador RPCV George David Jacobsen dies in Long Island
JACOBSEN, GEORGE DAVID
A resident of Baton Rouge and native of Brentwood, Long Island, N.Y., he died Monday, Sept. 27, 2004, (on what would have been his father's 97th birthday), at 61 years of age. A memorial service will be held at St. Alban's Chapel on the LSU campus at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6. George was the Paul M. Hebert Law Center library's foreign, comparative and international law specialist and had worked at the library since 1987. Prior to that, he had held various positions, including instructor of Spanish and Portuguese at LSU. Earlier, George had worked at the Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.
He had also been a devoted Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador from 1965 to 1967. George graduated from Brentwood High School in Brentwood in 1961, earned his bachelor of art degree in Spanish and comparative literature from Hofstra University in New York in 1965, and his master of arts degree in Spanish literature from Indiana State University in 1970. Then, he had completed all but his dissertation toward his Ph.D. in Spanish literature from Indiana State University in 1974. George's most recent projects-in-progress include the electronic conversion of the English translation of the Orleans Territory Acts of 1804 and a timely legal bibliography of the headscarf issue in France, available at http://www.getcited.org/ refs/PP/1/PUB/103401991.
If you visit the law center, you can view his excellent exhibit celebrating the bicentennial of the French civil code. George left no survivors. For memorial donations, which will go toward the establishment of a scholarship fund for LSU students, contact Madeline Hebert at (225) 578-4952. His friends and colleagues will always remember his love for Spanish literature, foreign legal research and his clever sense of humor. He was also a brilliant linguist and the law center faculty will especially miss conversing with him in their own native languages. In conclusion, George's many friends, including Esther Friedman, whom he has known since the first grade, will more than mourn his death and will continuously honor and celebrate his life.
