JOHANN HEINRICH

HOTTINGER (162o–1667)  , Swiss philologist and theologian, was born at Zurich on the loth of March 162o . He studied at Geneva, Groningen and Leiden, and after visiting France and England was in 1642 appointed professor of church history in his native town . The chair of Hebrew at the Carolinum 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 that the elector palatine in 1655 appointed him professor of Oriental languages and biblical criticism at Heidelberg . In 1661, however, he returned to Zurich, where in 1662 he was chosen 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 children by the upsetting of a boat while crossing the river Limmat . His chief works are Historic ecclesiastica Nov . Test . (1651–1667); Thesaurus philologicus seu clavis scripturae (1649; 3rd ed . 1698); Etymologicon orientale, sive lexicon harmonicum heptaglotton (1661) . He also wrote a Hebrew and an Aramaic grammar . His son, JOHANN JAKOB HOTTINGER (1652-1735), who became professor of theology at Zurich in 1698, was the author of a work against Roman Catholicism, Helvetische Kirchengeschichte (4 vols., 1698–1729); and his 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) .