Jacob Otto Hoof (22 October 1768 – 10 January 1839) was a Swedish Lutheran priest and Christian revivalist preacher.
[1] Hoof was ordained in Lund in 1795 and received his master's degree in Greifswald, Germany, in 1799.
In 1821, he became the regular vicar of Svenljunga in the Diocese of Gothenburg after having served as a substitute for nearly two decades.
He was a well-known revivalist preacher in the spirit of legalistic Pietism, albeit with elements of the blood and wound theology of the Moravian Church and a renunciation requirement reminiscent of Catholic mysticism.
[3][4] Hoof was a resident of Floghult, Holsljunga, where people came from far and wide to hear his teachings from his so-called preaching stone, now considered one of the local landmarks.