Wilhelm Jacoby

{{Short description|German playwright (1855–1925)}} {{Multiple issues| {{No footnotes|date=March 2026}} {{One source|date=March 2026}} }} '''Wilhelm Jacoby''' (1855–1925) was a German playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces notably the 1890 work ''Pension Schöller'' which he co-authored with Carl Laufs. He was the father of the film director George Jacoby, who adapted ''Pension Schöller'' into film on three occasions.

==Selected works== * ''The Duchess of Athens'' (1883) * ''Pension Schöller'' (1890)

==Bibliography== * Grange, William. ''Historical Dictionary of German Theater''. Scarecrow Press, 2006.

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Category:Writers from Mainz Category:People from Rhenish Hesse Category:German male writers Category:Writers from the German Empire

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