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JOHANN See also:FRIEDRICH See also:COTTA (1701-1779) , the theologian, was See also:born on the 12th of See also:March 1701, the son of Johann Georg Cotta (2). After studying See also:theology at See also:Tubingen he began his public career as lecturer in See also:Jena University. He then travelled in See also:Germany, See also:France and See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and, after residing several years in See also:London, became See also:professor at Tubingen in 1733. In 1736 he removed to the See also:chair of theology in the university of See also:Gottingen, which had been instituted as a seat of learning, two years before, by See also:George II. of See also:England, in his capacity as elector of See also:Hanover. In 1739, however, he returned, as extraordinary professor of theology, to his See also:Alma Mater, and, after successively filling the chairs of See also:history, See also:poetry and See also:oratory, was appointed See also:ordinary professor of theology in 1741. Finally he died, as See also:chancellor of Tubingen University, on the 31st of See also:December 1779. His learning was at once wide and accurate; his theological views were orthodox, although he did not believe in strict verbal See also:inspiration. He was a voluminous writer. His See also:chief See also:works are his edition of Johann See also:Gerhard's Loci Theologici (1762—1777), and the Kirchenhistorie See also:des Neuen Testaments (1768—1773).
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