Hermann Jacoby

Carl Johann Hermann Jacoby (born December 30, 1836 in Berlin ; † May 18, 1917 in Königsberg ) was a Protestant theologian.

Hermann Jacoby was the son of the Berlin senior teacher Johannes Jacoby and Dorothea Goetzke. After attending the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin, he studied theology in Berlin. Then he attended the seminary in Wittenberg . From 1859 to 1864 he was a high school teacher in Landsberg a. W. and in Stendal . In Stendal he also worked as a cathedral assistant preacher. From 1866 to 1868 he worked as a deacon in Schloss Heldrungen .

In 1868 Jacoby was appointed full professor of practical theology at the University of Königsberg; from 1871 he was also a university preacher. Since 1891 Jacoby was a member of the consistory and consistorial council . In 1896/97 he became rector of the University of Königsberg. Jacoby retired in 1912.

Jacoby had been with Paula, born in 1877. Goltz (1856–1913) married; his son was the philosopher Günther Jacoby (1881–1969).

Publications

• Two Protestant life pictures from the Catholic Church (Princess Gallitzin and Bishop Sailer , Bielefeld 1864).
• The liturgy of the reformers (2 vols., Gotha 1871/76).
• The shape of the main Protestant service (Gotha 1879).
• General pedagogy based on Christian ethics (Gotha 1883).
• Luther's pre-Reformation sermon (Königsberg 1883).
• The first letter of the Apostle John interpreted in sermons (Leipzig 1891).
• New Testament ethics (Königsberg 1899).
• Authority and Protestantism, Lecture given in Königsberg 1911 (Königsberg 1912)

literature

• Who is it , IV edition, Leipzig 1909.
• Ursula Hoffacker:  Jacoby, Carl Johann Herrmann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1417-1418.

Web links

Rectorate in Königsberg