Biography (Source: WikiPedia)
Jacob Koloman Freud (1815–1896) was the father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Born in town of Tysmenytsia in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and from a Hasidic background though himself an enlightened Jew of the Haskalah, he mainly earned his living as a wool merchant. By all accounts, Jacob Freud was a genial, unassuming character with a "Micawberish" streak of optimism: Sigmund would write warmly of "his characteristic mixture of deep wisdom and fantastic lightheartedness".