Henry Eyster Jacobs

Henry Eyster Jacobs
BornNovember 10, 1844
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
DiedJuly 7, 1932
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
EducationPennsylvania College, Lutheran Seminary.
SpouseLaura Hewes (nee Downing)[3]
ChurchEvangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of America
Ordained1868
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).[1]
  • Vice President, Pennsylvania Bible Society[2]
  • Dean of Faculty, Lutheran Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1893).

Henry Eyster Jacobs (November 10, 1844 – July 7, 1932) was an American religious educator, Biblical commentator and Lutheran theologian.[4]

  1. ^ "Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia". cyclopedia.lcms.org.
  2. ^ Reed, Luther D. The Philadelphia Seminary Biographical Record 1864-1923. Mt. Airy, Philadelphia: The Seminary and the Alumni Association. p. 41. Retrieved September 21, 2018.
  3. ^ "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time". J. T. White Company. September 21, 2018 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Henry Eyster Jacobs 1844-1932 (The Cyber Hymnal)".