Henry Eyster Jacobs
{{Short description|American religious educator, Biblical commentator and Lutheran theologian}}
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| birth_date = November 10, 1844
| birth_place = Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
| death_date = July 7, 1932
| death_place = Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
| church = Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of America
| education = Pennsylvania College, Lutheran Seminary.
| ordained = 1868
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| offices_held = * Principal, Thiel Hall, Phillipsburgh (Now Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania,(1868–70).
- Chair of Latin, (1870-1880), Pennsylvania College.
- Chair of Ancient Languages (1880-1881), Pennsylvania College.
- Chair of Greek Language and Literature (1881-1883), Pennsylvania College.
- Professor of Systematic Theology, Lutheran Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1883-1893).{{cite web|url=http://cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=J&word=JACOBS.HENRYEYSTER|title=Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia|website=cyclopedia.lcms.org}}
- Vice President, Pennsylvania Bible Society{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/MN41986ucmf_0#page/n49/search/Pennsylvania+Bible+Society |title=The Philadelphia Seminary Biographical Record 1864-1923 |last=Reed |first=Luther D. |publisher=The Seminary and the Alumni Association |location=Mt. Airy, Philadelphia |page=41 |access-date=September 21, 2018}}
- Dean of Faculty, Lutheran Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1893).
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Henry Eyster Jacobs (November 10, 1844 – July 7, 1932) was an American religious educator, Biblical commentator and Lutheran theologian.{{cite web|url=http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/j/a/c/jacobs_he.htm|title=Henry Eyster Jacobs 1844-1932 (The Cyber Hymnal)|publisher=}}
Biography
Jacobs was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the son of professor Michael and Juliana M (Eyster) Jacobs. His sister Julia Jacobs Harpster became a missionary in India; his brother Michael William Jacobs became a judge. He graduated from Pennsylvania College in 1862 and from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in 1865. Between 1870 and 1883, he was professor at Pennsylvania College. He was then appointed professor of systematic theology in The Lutheran Theological Seminary in Mount Airy, where he also assumed the office of dean in 1894. In 1920, he became President of the Seminary when the office of dean was abolished.{{cite web|url=http://www.ltsp.edu/about-ltsp|title=About LTSP (The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia)|publisher=|access-date=August 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824033457/http://www.ltsp.edu/about-ltsp|archive-date=August 24, 2010|url-status=dead}}
He served as president of his church's board of foreign missions (1902–07), of the General Council of Lutherans (1899, 1902, 1904), of the American Society of Church History (1907–08), and of the Pennsylvania German Society (1910–11). He also translated various German theological works and editing the Lutheran Church Review (1882–96), and Lutheran Commentary (1895-98). Henry Eyster Jacobs, working with John A.W. Haas, published The Lutheran Cyclopedia in 1899.{{cite web|url=https://archive.elca.org/communication/timeline/18.html|title=American Lutheran Developments in their Historical Context (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)|publisher=|access-date=August 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622042949/http://archive.elca.org/communication/timeline/18.html|archive-date=June 22, 2010|url-status=dead}}
Lutheran Archives Center in Philadelphia holds a large collections of materials relating to Lutheran clergy, theologians and church workers including personal papers of Henry Eyster Jacobs.{{cite web|url=http://www.ltsp.edu/lutheran-archives-philadelphia|title=The Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia (The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia)|publisher=}}
Selected works
- First Free Lutheran Diet in America, Philadelphia, December 27–28, 1877 (1878)
- The Lutheran movement in England during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, and its literary monuments (1890)
- The Lutheran Movement in England (1891)
- History of the Lutheran Church in America (1893)
- Elements of Religion (1894)
- Annotations on the Epistles of Paul to the Romans and I. Corinthians (1896)
- Annotations on the Epistles of Paul to I. Cortinthians VII-XVI, II. Corinthians and Galatians (1897)
- Martin Luther, the hero of the reformation (1898)
- The German Emigration to America, 1709- 40 (1899)
- The Lutheran Cyclopedia. (1899)
- Summary of the Christian Faith (1905)
References
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- {{NIE|title=Jacobs,Henry Eyster}}
Other sources
- Wolf, Edmund Jacob. The Lutherans in America; a story of struggle, progress, influence and marvelous growth (J. A. Hill & Company, New York: 1890)
- {{cite web|url=http://www.ltsp150.org/growing-pains/|title=Growing pains – LTSP 150th Anniversary Timeline|publisher=The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia 150th Celebration}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXjTmmD6U9I |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/YXjTmmD6U9I |archive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|title=Henry Eyster Jacobs - Carmine Pernini|last=LTSP Communications|date=April 29, 2014|publisher=|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
External links
- {{Gutenberg author | id=37314| name=Henry Eyster Jacobs}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Henry Eyster Jacobs |sopt=t}}
- [http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/1picts/psbr/psbr.htm The Philadelphia Seminary biographical record, 1864-1923].
- [https://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/lutherantheology.jacobschurchandmin.html The Church and the Ministry]
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