HOTTINGER, het'ting-er, JOHANN HEINRICH: Semitic scholar, professor in Zurich; b. at Zurich Mar. 10, 1620; d. there June 5, 1667. Provided with a public stipend, he studied Semitic languages and theology in Groningen under Gomaras, Heinrich Alting, and Pasor, and in Leyden under Jacob Alting and Golius. He became private tutor in the house of Golius, but in 1642 returned to Zurich, where he was appointed professor of church history and later also of Semitic languages. In 1655 he received a call to Heidelberg to restore churches and schools after the heavy afflictions of the Thirty Years' War, and to reestablish the theological faculty. His main activity was directed toward the revival of Hebrew and cognate languagges. In 1656 he was elected rector of the university. In 1661 he returned to Zurich. He accepted a call to Leyden, but, with three of his children, was drowned in the river Limmat before he had arranged his affairs to leave Zurich. He published Exercitationes Am`iMoriniants (Zurich, 1644), a defense of the Hebrew test of Scripture against the Oratorian Morinus, who bad tried to disparage the Hebrew test in the interest. of the Roman Catholics; Erotematum linguta sandta (1647), a small Hebrew grammar for the use of schools; Thesaurus philologicus seu clavis scripturct (1649), a sort of introduction to the Old Testament; Historia ecclesiastica Non Testaments (9 vols., 1651-67); Historia orzentalis (1651); Methodua legendi hidorias Helveticas (1654); Smegma orientale et promptuarium sine bibliotheca orientalis (1657 and 1658); Grammatica quatuor linguarum Hebraicw, Chaklaicw, Syraacm, et Arabicw harmonica (1658); Etymologicum orientale siroe lexicon harmonieum heptogloUon (Frankfort, 1661); Archteologia ordentalis (Heidelberg, 1662); Bibliothecarius site triotatua de officio bibliothecarii (Zurich, 1664).

(Emil Egli.)

Bibliography: The chief source of knowledge is J. H. Heidegger, Historic de vita et obitu Johann Heinrich Hottinper, Zurich. 1667. Consult: H. Steiner, Der Z9rdter Professor J. H. Hottinper in Heidelberg IB6"1, ib. 1886.

HOTTINGER, JOHANN JAKOB: 1. Professor in Zurich, son of Johann Heinrich Hottinger (q.v.); b. at Zurich Dec. 1, 1652; d. there Dec. 18, 1735. He was a pupil of the three fathers of the Helvetic Consensus, Heidegger in Zurich, Gernler in Basel, and Turretin in Geneva. In 1680 he became pastor at Stallikon, in the canton of Zurich, 1686 assistant preacher of the. cathedral in Zurich, and in 1698 professor of theology. Some of his historical works are still of value, such as his books on the Pietistic movement in Zurich from 1689 to 1717 and on the history of the Formula Consensus (Latin and German, 1723). His principal work is Helvetische Kirchengeschichte (4 vols., Zurich, 1698-1729).

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2. Grandson of the preceding, professor of history in Zurich; b. at Zurich May 18, 1783; d. there May 17, 1860. He continued Johann von Müller's Geschichte den Eidgenossen wahrend den Zeiten den Kirchentrennung (2 vols., Zurich, 1825-29), and wrote a biography of Zwingli (1842).

(Emil Egli.)

Bibliography: J. J. Lavater, Gratio SnULupuratt8 . . . vita J. J. Hottinweri, Zurich, 1736; ADS, Ivii. 193-195.