JACOB 01VI/NIUDI. The pen-name of the English essayist Matthew- James Higgins (q.v.). JACOBS. yti/k6ps, CuaisTIAN FRIEDRICH WTI: HELM (1764-1847). An eminent German classp cal scholar, born at Gotha. After studying at the universities of Jena and Gottingen, he was made an instructor in the gymnasium at Gotha (1785), with a position after 1802 in the public library of the same city. In 1807 he was ap pointed a teacher of classical literature at the Munich Lyceum, and a member of the Academy of Sciences of that city, but returned to Gotha in 1810 as chief librarian and director of the collection of numismatics and antiques. From 1831 to 1842 he was director of the art collec tions of Gotha. In addition to many editions of ancient writers, including the Antchomeriea of Tzetzes (1793), .Elian (18:32), Achilles Tatius (2 vols., 1821), and the Imagines of Philostra tus, with Weleker (1825), his numerous works include an edition of the Antholoyia Grirca (13 vols., 1794-1814), his most important classical
work, remarkable for its profound learning and elegance of style; metrical translations of seven hundred poems of the Anthology, published under the title of Tempe (2 vols., 1803) ; trans lations from Demosthenes. Staatsreden and Rede fur die Krone (1805) ; an elementary book on Greek, Elementarbuch der griechischen Sprache (1805, frequently republished) : and numerous miscellaneous essays on classical philology, col lected under the title Vermischte Sehriften (vols. i.-iii. 1823-24, vol.. iv.-viii. 1829-44). In the later works, his Geschichte des weiblichen Ge schlechts (vol. iv.) is best known. Consult his sketch of himself in his Personalien (Leipzig, 1840) ; also Wilstemann'g Hellas (Berlin, 1852).