Jacoby, Louis:

By: Isidore Singer , Frederick T. Haneman

German engraver; born June 7, 1828, at Havelberg, Brandenburg, Germany; pupil of the engraver Mandel of Berlin, in which city he settled. The year 1855 he spent in Paris; 1856 in Spain; and the years 1860-63 in Italy, especially in Rome. In 1863 he was appointed professor of engraving at the Vienna Academy, and in 1882 was called to Berlin as adviser on art to the imperial printing-office.

Jacoby's first engraving, Tiarini's "St. John," appeared in 1850. His most important engravings are: Kaulbach's "The Battle of the Huns"; Raphael's "School of Athens" (of which he had made a copy during his stay at Rome); Soddoma's " The Wedding of Alexander and Roxana"; Winterhalter's "The Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph and the Empress Elizabeth"; as well as the portraits of many important scientists and members of society in the Austrian and German capitals, e.g. , Rokitansky, Olfers, Ritter, Cornelius, Guhl, Mommsen, Henzen, Grillparzer, Brücke, De la Motte-Fouqué, and York von Wartenburg.