The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Jacobi, Herman Georg Jakob

JACOBI, Herman Georg Jakob, German Sanskrit scholar: b. Cologne, 11 Feb. 1850. He was educated at Cologne Gymnasium, and later took up a course of studies in Sanskrit and allied languages at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. After spending a year (1872-73) in the India office in London on the old Sanskrit manuscripts, he went to India, making a tour of Rajputana. In 1875 he became a docent in Sanskrit at Bonn; from 1876-85 was professor extraordinarius of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Münster, Westphalia; in 1885 was made professor ordinarius of Sanskrit at Kiel; and in 1889 was appointed professor of Sanskrit at Bonn. He made a special study of Jainisny and Prâkrit grammar, writing exhaustively on those subjects as well as on the Sanskrit poetical languages. Among the most important of his works are &lsquo;The Indian Antiquary&rsquo; and the &lsquo;Epigraphia Indica,&rsquo; published in 1892, in which he gives two sets of tables showing the Hindu dates in inscriptions, a work of much value. His other works include &lsquo;De Astrologiæ Indicæ, Horâ appellatæ originibus&rsquo; (1872); &lsquo;The Kalpasûtra of Bhadrabâhu&rsquo; (1879); &lsquo;The Âyaramgo Sutta of the Çvetâmbra Jains&rsquo; (1882); &lsquo;Gaina Sûtras&rsquo; (1884); &lsquo;Ausgewählte Erzählungen in Mâhârâshtri. Zur Einführung in das Studium des Prâhrit&rsquo; (1886): &lsquo;The Porisishtaparvan by Hemachandra&rsquo; (1891); &lsquo; Sthavirâvali Charita&rsquo; (1891); &lsquo;Das Ramayana Geschichte und Inhalt, nebst Concordanz der gedruckten Recensionen&rsquo; (1893); &lsquo;Kompositum und Nebensatz, Studien über die indogermanische Sprachentwicklung&rsquo; (1897); &lsquo;Bhasa's Svapnavasavadatta&rsquo; (1913); etc.