Johann Heinrich Heidegger

Johann Heinrich Heidegger ( born July 1, 1633 Bäretswil in the Zurich Oberland, † January 18, 1698 in Zurich ) was a Reformed theologian from Switzerland.

He became a professor of the Hebrew language in Heidelberg, in 1659 professor of theology at the High School in Steinfurt and in Zurich in 1665 professor of moral and in 1667 professor of theology.

While Heidegger 1686 for agreement of the Reformed Church began with the Lutheran, he inveighed violently against the Roman Catholic Church, as in his writings De fide decretorum concilii Tridentine quaestiones and Anatome concilii Tridentine. He was a major representative of the Reformed federal theology, participated in the drafting of the consensus Helveticus and defended against Louis Cappel the verbal inspiration of the Hebrew Bible to the vowel points.

Johann Jacob Heidegger was the younger of his two sons.