Background
Mombert, Jacob Isidor was born on November 6, 1829 in Cassel, Germany. Son of Doctor J. L. and Joanna Mombert.
Mombert, Jacob Isidor was born on November 6, 1829 in Cassel, Germany. Son of Doctor J. L. and Joanna Mombert.
Academic education in Germany and England. Doctor of Divinity, University of Pennsylvania, 1866.
Deacon, 1856, priest, 1857, Protestant Episcopal Church. Assistant Trinity Church, Quebec, Canada, 1857-1859. Rector Saint James’, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1859-1870, Saint John's, Dresden, Germany, 1870-1876, Christ Church, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1877-1879, Saint John's, Passaic, New Jersey, 1879-1882.
Devoted to literature, since 1882.
Translator: Tholuck’s Psalms. The Catholic Epistles in Lange’s Commentary.
Editor: Tyndale’s Five Books of Moses, 1884. Author: Authentic History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1869.
Faith Victorious (Life of Ebel), 1882.
Great Lives, 1886. Charles the Great, 1888. Handbook of English Versions of the Bible, 1890, 1907.
Short History of the Crusades, 1894.
Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, 1895. Home: Paterson, New Jersey.
Married Emma Elizabeth Mublenberg, July 5, 1860.