Johann Heinrich Hottinger (10 March 1620 – 5 June 1667) was a

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theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

Life and works

Hottinger studied at

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. After visiting

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he was appointed professor of church history in his native town of

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in 1642. The chair of

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at the ''Carolinum'' in Zürich was added in 1643, and in 1653 he was appointed professor ordinarius of logic, rhetoric and theology. He gained such a reputation as an

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al scholar that the

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in 1655 appointed him professor of Oriental languages and biblical criticism at the

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. While in Heidelberg he also worked to reestablish the

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, a Reformed theological seminary. In 1661 he returned to Zürich, where in 1662 he was appointed principal of the

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. In 1667 he accepted an invitation to succeed Johann Hoornbeck (1617–1666) as professor in the

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. Before he could take up this position he drowned with three of his children after the upsetting of a boat while crossing the river

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. He was succeeded upon his death at the chair of theology in Zurich by his fellow Zurich-native younger namesake and former student at Heidelberg,

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 ...

. His chief works are ''Historia ecclesiastica Nov. Test.'' (1651–1667); ''Thesaurus philologicus seu clavis scripturae'' (1649; 3rd ed. 1698); ''Etymologicon orientale, sive lexicon harmonicum heptaglotton'' (1661). He also wrote a Hebrew and an

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grammar.

Johann Heinrich Hottinger Ducat Gold Coin (1720)

Family

His son, Johann Jakob Hottinger (1652–1735), who became professor of theology at Zürich in 1698, was the author of a work against

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, ''Helvetische Kirchengeschichte'' (4 vols, 1698–1729); and his grandson, Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1681–1750), who in 1721 was appointed professor of theology at Heidelberg, wrote a work on

dogma Dogma is a belief or set of beliefs that is accepted by the members of a group without being questioned or doubted. It may be in the form of an official system of principles or doctrines of a religion, such as Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Islam ...

tics, ''Typus doctrinae christianae'' (1714).

Works

*''Historia ecclesiastica'' 9 vols. (1651–1667)
''Historia orientalis''
(Zurich 1651)
''Thesaurus philologicus, Clavis scripturae''
(Zurich 1649, 3rd edition 1669) *''Etymologicon orientale, sive Lexicon harmonicum heptaglotton'' (Heidelberg 1661)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hottinger, Johann Heinrich 1620 births 1667 deaths People from Zürich Swiss Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century philologists 17th-century Swiss people Collegium Sapientiae (Heidelberg) faculty Christian Hebraists 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians

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