JACOBS, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH WILHELM German classical scholar, was born at Gotha on Oct. 6, 1764, and died there on March 3o, 1847. He was a notable teacher and publicist, but his great work was an edition of the Greek Anthology, with copious notes, in 13 volumes (1798 1814), supplemented by a revised text from the Codex Palatinus (1814-17). He published also notes on Horace, Stobaeus, Euripi des, Athenaeus and the Iliaca of Tzetzes; translations of Aelian (History of Aninuils) ; miscellaneous essays on classical subjects.
See E. F. Wiistemann, Friderici Jacobsii laudatio (Gotha, 1848) ; C. Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883) ; and the appreciative article by C. Regel in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.