Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Sr.
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Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Sr. (19 September 1816—28 October 1876) was an American Presbyterian minister and writer.
Born at Newark, New Jersey, in 1834 he graduated from Princeton College and four years later from Princeton Seminary.
In 1839, he accepted the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York He was elected professor at Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pennsylvania and he held that chair from 1852 until his death. Melancthon senior was pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1858 to 1870.
He received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania (1852) and LL. D. from Princeton in 1867.
His son, Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Jr. was born in 1855.
[edit] Publications
- Notes on the New Testament (four volumes, 1848-1859)
- Address to the Churches (1861)
- Genesis (two volumes, 1864-1865)
- Exodus (1876)
