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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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition article "Johann Georg Jacobi", a publication now in the public domain.
