Johann Adolph Jacobi

Johann Adolph Jacobi (also Johann Adolf Jacobi ; born August 9, 1769 in Großkochberg ; † August 12, 1847 in Waltershausen ) was a Protestant theologian and pastor .

Life

Jacobi, the son of a pastor, went to the University of Göttingen to study theology and philosophy . After completing his studies, he became rector of the city school and deacon in Jena in 1797, and in 1798 he was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the university there. In 1799 Jacobi went to Ruhla as a pastor , and in 1801 he became a rural school inspector and preacher in Gotha . In 1812 he was appointed senior pastor and superintendent in Waltershausen.

1819 awarded him the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Breslau the honorary doctorate in theology ( Dr. theol. Hc ).

The ministerial advisor and chief preacher in Gotha Eduard Adolf Jacobi was his son.

Works (selection)

• Annotationes in selecta Jobi loca , 1795.
• The Psalms translated with Notes , 2 parts, 1796.
• The story of Jesus for thinking and spirited readers , 2 volumes, Sondershausen 1816-1818, (2nd volume with the additional title The Acts of the Apostles ).
• Oak leaves wound around Luther's ash jar , 1817.
• Oak leaves, strewn on Luther's grave, in 1817 , 2nd edition, Hennings, Erfurt [u. a.], 1817 ( digitized version ).
• with Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths : German Land and German People , 4 volumes, Leipzig, 1820–1826.

literature

• Gustav Moritz Redslob :  Jacobi, Johann Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 592 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Works by and about Johann Adolph Jacobi  in the German Digital Library (as of June 14, 2015).
2. ^ Karl Pretzsch : Directory of the Breslau university publications 1811–1885. With an attachment containing the extraordinary and honorary doctorates as well as the renewals . Korn, Breslau 1905, page 336 ( digitized version )