JACOBI, JOHANN GEORG (174o-1814), German poet, elder brother of F. H. Jacobi (q.v.), was born at Dusseldorf on Sept. 2, 174o. He was professor of philosophy at Halle (1766-69), then, through the influence of his friend Gleim, prebendary at Halberstadt (1769-74), editor of the Iris at Dusseldorf (1774— 76), and professor of literature at Freiburg-im-Breisgau (5784— 1814). He died at Freiburg on Jan. 4, 1814. He wrote many charming lyrics and sonnets. In addition to the earlier Iris, to which Goethe, his brother F. H. Jacobi, Gleim and other poets
contributed, he published. from 1803-13, another periodical, also called Iris, in which Klopstock, Herder, Jean Paul, Voss and the brothers Stolberg also collaborated.
Jacobi's Siimtliche Werke were published in 1774 (Halberstadt, 3 vols.). Other editions appeared at Zurich in 2807-53 and 1825. See Ungedruckte Briefe von and an Johann Georg Jacobi (Strassburg, 1874) Longo, Laurence Sterne and Johann Georg Jacobi (Vienna, 1898).