Jakob Rosenberg (September 5, 1893 – April 7, 1980) was an art historian, museum curator, and educator who is noted particularly for published work on Rembrandt.
His brother Saemy Rosenberg (1893–1971) continued the business in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States.
After serving in a cavalry unit in World War I he was wounded, captured by the British and sent to Scotland.
After the war he studied art history in Bern and Zurich, then in Frankfurt and Munich, where he received his doctorate under Heinrich Wölfflin.
Many Jews were being dismissed from positions at the time in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws of the National Socialist regime in Germany.