JOHANN HEINRICH See also: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
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Johann studied with See also:great success at the See also:universities of See also:Groningen and Herborn
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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
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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
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In 1618, along with See also:Abraham Scultetus, he represented the university in the See also:synod of See also:Dort
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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
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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
- 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, where the unfortunate elector and " See also:Winter See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King " Frederick, in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile after his brief reign in Bohemia, made him tutor to his eldest son
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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
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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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