Christoph Gottfried Jacobi
Christoph Gottfried Jacobi (born April 20, 1724 in Stapelburg ; † December 1, 1789 in Halberstadt ) was a German Protestant theologian, sacred song poet and writer.
Life
He was the son of the Graflich-Stolberg- Wernigerödischen game master Johann Gottfried Jacobi and was born in the later county of Wernigerode . His father had several parishioners give him his first lessons. Under the rector and vice-principal Schütze, father and son, of the Latin school in Wernigerode, which he attended from 1738, his interest in theology was aroused. From 1741 he attended the pedagogy at Berge Monastery near Magdeburg , which was then headed by Johann Adam Steinmetz .
In 1744 he went to study at the University of Halle , where he took his master's degree in 1746. He then became a tutor in northern Germany. In 1749 he returned to Wernigerode , where he became vice rector at the lyceum and also worked as a count's librarian. From 1755 he only worked as a librarian. However, this work did not fulfill him in the long term, so that in 1762 he accepted the call as a deacon at the upper parish church of St. Sylvestri and Georgii in Wernigerode. In 1763 he turned his back on the provincial Wernigerode and went to Magdeburg , where from then on he worked as a deacon and later as a pastor at the Jacobikirche. In 1773 he was appointed general superintendent in Halberstadt, where he worked until his death in Advent 1789.
He left behind numerous writings, both theological and edifying as well as educational in nature, and campaigned for the establishment of compulsory health insurance funds for the sick and unemployed, whose statutes he wrote and published in print.
Honors
- Honorary member of the German Society of Göttingen and Altdorf
- In the GDR he was revered as a champion of socialist legislation .
literature
- Christian Friedrich Kesslin: Messages from writers and artists in the county of Wernigerode from 1074 to 1855. Gebrüder Bänsch, Magdeburg 1856, pp. 88–90, 290 f.
- Eduard Jacobs : Jacobi, Christoph Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 573-575 ( online ).
- HP Reinhardt: A pioneer of socialist legislation from the Wernigerode district . In: Heimat-Zeitschrift des Kreises Wernigerode Harz , issue 5, 1957, pp. 151–152.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stapelburg did not come into the possession of Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode until the 1730s
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacobi, Christoph Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian, sacred song poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1724 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stapelburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1789 |
| Place of death | Halberstadt |