Jacobi, Johann Friedrich

Jacobi, Johann Friedrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born January 16, 1712. For some time preacher at Osterode and Brunswick, he was called in 1758 as general siuperinteudent of Liuneburg to Celle, and died March 21, 1791. He wrote a number of ascetical works. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:23, 385, 418, 438, 488; 2:40. (B.P.)