Johann Georg Jacobi

Jacobi, Johann Georg (Düsseldorf, 1740-1814, Freiburg/Breisgau), studied at several German universities, becoming a professor at Halle in 1766. A friend of J. W. L. Gleim, he was made in 1768 a lay canon of Halberstadt. In 1784 he was elected to a chair at Freiburg University, where he remained for the rest of his life. His poetry, collected in Poetische Versuche (1764), Abschied an den Amor (1769), Die Winterreise (1769), and Die Sommerreise (1770), is mixed with rhythmic prose and consists in the main of pseudo-Anacreontic trivialities. From 1774 to 1777 he edited Iris, a periodical in which a number of poems by Goethe, with whom Jacobi was acquainted, were first published. Late in life he resumed periodical publication with Taschenbücher (1795), the title of which was changed in 1803 to Iris. This second Iris appeared until 1813.

Johann Georg Jacobi

Johann Georg Jacobi (September 2, 1740 - January 4, 1814), German poet, elder brother of the philosopher, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, was born at Düsseldorf. He studied theology at Göttingen and jurisprudence at Helmstedt, and was appointed, in 1766, professor of philosophy in Halle. In this year he made the acquaintance of J. W. L. Gleim, who, attracted by the young poets Foeiische Versuche (1764), became his warm friend, and a lively literary correspondence ensued between Gleim in Halberstadt and Jacobi in Halle. In order to have Jacobi near him, Gleim succeeded in procuring for him a prebendal stall at the cathedral of Halberstadt in 1769, and here Jacobi issued a number of anacreontic lyrics and sonnets.

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