Johann Heinrich Hottinger

Johann Heinrich Hottinger ( born March 10, 1620 Zurich, † June 5, 1667 in Zurich ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and orientalist.

Life

Hottinger studied in Geneva, Groningen and Leiden Oriental languages ​​and theology. After he had traveled to England and France, he was in 1642 in Zurich, Professor of Church History, 1648, the theology and the Oriental languages ​​and in 1653 full professor of rhetoric and logic.

Two years later he accepted an appointment as a professor of Oriental languages ​​in Heidelberg, but returned in 1661 back to Zurich and got here the dignity of resistant Rector of the University.

In concept, a professor at the University of Leiden to follow, he drowned with three children in the Limmat, when the overloaded boat capsized.

One of his sons, the Hebraist Johann Heinrich Hottinger included (1647-1692), physician and physicist Salomon Hottinger (1649-1713), the theologian Johann Jakob Hottinger (1652-1735) and the doctor and numismatist Johann Konrad Hottinger (1655-1730).

Work

Among his numerous works on Semitic languages ​​, Oriental history and archeology, church history and theological issues are highlighted:

• Historia ecclesiastica (1651-1667, 9 vols )
• Historia orientalis ( Zurich 1651)
• Thesaurus philologicus, Clavis scripturae ( Zurich 1649, 3rd ed 1669)
• Etymologicon orientale, sive Lexicon harmonicum heptaglotton (Heidelberg 1661)