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JOHANN HEINRICH ALTING (1583-1644)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALTING (1583-1644)  , See also:German divine, was See also:born at See also:Emden,where his See also:father, Memo See also:Alting (1541-1612), was See also:minister . Johann studied with See also:great success at the See also:universities of See also:Groningen and Herborn . In 16o8 he was appointed See also:tutor of See also:Frederick, afterwards elector-See also:palatine, at See also:Heidelberg, and in 1612 accompanied him to See also:England . Returning in 1613 to Heidelberg, after the See also:marriage of the elector with Princess See also:Elizabeth of England, he was appointed See also:professor of dogmatics, and in 1616 director of the theological See also:department in the Collegium Sapientiae . In 1618, along with See also:Abraham Scultetus, he represented the university in the See also:synod of See also:Dort . When See also:Count See also:Tilly took the See also:city of Heidelberg (1622) and handed it over to See also:plunder, Alting found great difficulty in escaping the fury of the soldiers . He first retired to Schorndorf; but, offended by the " semi-Pelagianism " of the See also:Lutherans with whom he was brought in contact, he removed to See also:Holland, where the unfortunate elector and " See also:Winter See also:King " Frederick, in See also:exile after his brief reign in Bohemia, made him tutor to his eldest son . In 1627 Alting was appointed to the See also:chair of See also:theology at Groningen, where he continued to lecture, with increasing reputation, until his See also:death in 1644 . Though an orthodox Calvinist, Alting laid little stress on the sterner See also:side of his creed and, when at Dort he opposed the See also:Remonstrants, he did so mainly on the ground that they were " innovators." Among his See also:works are: 1V otae in Decadem Problematum See also:Jacobi Behm (Heidelberg, 1618); Scripta Theologica Heidelbergensia (Amst., 1662); Exegesis Augustanae Confessionis (Amst., 1647) .

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