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On the recommendation of Baron Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist, the grant was again awarded him. By 1849 Jacobi was the leading mathematician in Europe after Gauss. He died in Berlin of smallpox. Jacobi’s works on differential equations and the calculus of variations serve as the mathematical basis for modern physics. His collected works, Gesammelte Werke, were published by the University of Berlin in eight volumes (1881–91). Bibliography: L. T. Bell, Men of Mathematics (1937), index.
He converted to Christianity sometime after 1527, as had Felix Pratensis, his predecessor at the press. In the 1520s he edited books in the fields of Kabbalah, Talmud, Bible, and liturgy. He is best remembered as the editor of the second edition of the famous Rabbinic Bible Shaar YHWH he-Ḥ adash (sic, not as often quoted: hqdš), “The New Gate of the Lord,” based on Sephardi manuscripts. The title, taken from Jeremiah 26:10 alluded to the fact that this edition was a replacement (1524–25) for the earlier edition (1517) that had been produced by Pratensis after his conversion to Christianity, a fact that did not sit well with prospective Jewish buyers.
2:10; Yev. ). Apart from the statements in his name in Avot, Jacob is mentioned only once more by name in the Mishnah (in a Ms. of Neg. 14:10), although several well-known and fundamental laws in the Mishnah are in accordance with 34 his opinion (BK, 9:1; cf. , 6d; Ohol. , 13:10). He is frequently mentioned, however, in the Tosefta and in other beraitot in the two Talmuds. According to the Jerusalem Talmud, Judah ha-Nasi was his outstanding disciple (TJ, Shab. 10:5, 12c; TJ, Pes. 10:1, 37b), and it is assumed that the material from Meir’s Mishnah, which Judah incorporated in his Mishnah, was transmitted by Jacob, since Judah apparently did not study directly under Meir (Er.