Johann Jakob Hottinger (1 December 1652 – 18 December 1735) was a Swiss

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Biography

He was born in

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, the son of the

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and

Johann Heinrich Hottinger Johann Heinrich Hottinger (10 March 1620 – 5 June 1667) was a Swiss philologist and theologian. Life and works Hottinger studied at Geneva, Groningen and Leiden. After visiting France and England he was appointed professor of church history ...

. He studied theology at the Carolinum in Zürich, and also in

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and

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. In 1676 he received his

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, then in 1680 became a pastor in

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. In 1686 he was named deacon at the

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in Zürich, where in 1698 he succeeded

Johann Heinrich Heidegger Johann Heinrich Heidegger (July 1, 1633 – July 18, 1698), Swiss theologian, was born at Bäretswil, in the Canton of Zürich. He studied at Marburg and at Heidelberg, where he became the friend of J. L. Fabricius, and was appointed professor ex ...

as professor of theology.Hottinger, Johann Jakob
Historischen Lexikon der SchweizADB:Hottinger, Johann Jakob (Kirchenhistoriker)
at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie He died in

, aged 83.

Works

He was the author of numerous historical and polemical writings (over 100 publications). * ''Helvetische Kirchengeschichte'' (4 volumes, 1698–1729) – A work against

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References

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Hottinger, Johann-Jakob (1652-1735)
IdRef / SUDOC (bibliography) 1652 births 1735 deaths People from Zürich Swiss Calvinist and Reformed theologians 18th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians {{Switzerland-academic-bio-stub