Born: 1670, Ger­ma­ny.

Died: De­cem­ber 14, 1750, Lon­don, Eng­land.

After em­i­grat­ing to Eng­land, Ja­co­bi was ap­point­ed Keep­er of the Roy­al Ger­man Cha­pel, St. James Pal­ace, around 1708, a po­si­tion he held the rest of his life. He is best known for his trans­la­tions of Ger­man cho­rales in­to Eng­lish. His works in­clude:

• A Col­lect­ion of Di­vine Hymns Trans­lat­ed from the High Dutch: To­ge­ther with Their Pro­per Tunes and Tho­rough Bass (Lon­don: 1720)
• Psalmodia Ger­man­i­ca, 1722

Sources

Translations

1. Ho­ly Ghost, Dis­pel Our Sad­ness
2. O Jesus Christ, True Light of God