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See also:HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH (162o–1667) , Swiss philologist and theologian, was See also:born at See also:Zurich on the loth of See also:March 162o. He studied at See also:Geneva, See also:Groningen and See also:Leiden, and after visiting See also:France and See also:England was in 1642 appointed See also:professor of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:history in his native See also:town. The See also:chair of See also:Hebrew at the Carolinum was added in 1643, and in 1653 he was appointed professor ordinarius of See also:logic, See also:rhetoric and See also:theology. He gained such a reputation as an See also:Oriental See also:scholar that the elector See also:palatine in 1655 appointed him professor of Oriental See also:languages and biblical See also:criticism at See also:Heidelberg. In 1661, however, he returned to Zurich, where in 1662 he was chosen See also:principal of . the university. In 1667 he accepted an invitation to succeed Johann Hoornbeck (1617–1666) as professor in the university of Leiden, but he was drowned with three of his See also:children by the upsetting of a See also:boat while See also:crossing the See also:river Limmat. His See also:chief See also:works are Historic ecclesiastica Nov. Test. (1651–1667); See also:Thesaurus philologicus seu clavis scripturae (1649; 3rd ed. 1698); Etymologicon orientale, sive See also:lexicon harmonicum heptaglotton (1661). He also wrote a Hebrew and an Aramaic See also:grammar.
His son, JOHANN See also:JAKOB HOTTINGER (1652-1735), who became professor of theology at Zurich in 1698, was the author of a See also:work against See also:Roman Catholicism, Helvetische Kirchengeschichte (4 vols., 1698–1729); and his See also:grandson, JOHANN HEINRICH HOTTINGER (1681–1750), who in 1721 was appointed professor of theology
at Heidelberg, wrote a work on dogmatics, Typus doctrinae christianae (1714).
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