Johann Heinrich Hottinger [SEP] date of death
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 in his native town of Zürich in 1642. The chair of Hebrew 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 Oriental scholar
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Further reading.
- "Hottinger, Johann Heinrich", in Johann Jakob Herzog, ed. "Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche," 6. Band, Stuttgart und Hamburg 1856, pp. 287–290.
- Jan Loop, "Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667) and the Historia Orientalis", "Church History and Religious Culture" 88 (2008): 169-203.
- Heinrich Steiner, "Der Zürcher Professor Johann Heinrich Hottinger in Heidelberg". Zurich 1886