Background
Jakobeus was born to a bourgeois family in Kutná Hora, Bohemia, modern day Czechoslovakian Republic.
Jakobeus was born to a bourgeois family in Kutná Hora, Bohemia, modern day Czechoslovakian Republic.
He completed his education at Charles University in Prague.
He lived from 1591-1645. In 1624, he left Saxony and moved to his ancestral land, Hungary, where he spent the remainder of his life. While in Hungary he worked as a teacher and spiritual guide.
He died in 1645 in Eperjes (now Presov), Hungary.