Johann Heinrich Hottinger the Elder

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Hottinger wants to try to save his children from the Limmat

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

Life

Hottinger studied oriental languages ​​and theology in Zurich , Geneva , Groningen and Leiden . In Groningen he attended lectures by Jacob Alting , in Leiden those of his teacher and supporter Jacobus Golius . After traveling to England and France, he became professor of church history in Zurich in 1642, of theology and the oriental languages ​​in 1648 and of full professor of rhetoric and logic in 1653.

Two years later he followed a call from Elector Karl Ludwig von der Pfalz to Heidelberg as a professor of the Old Testament and Hebrew . As rector he renewed the Heidelberg Collegium Sapientiae , but returned to Zurich in 1661 at the request of the Zurich Council and received the dignity of permanent rector of the Collegium Carolinum .

In 1664 he traveled as a Zurich envoy to Protestant imperial princes and to the Netherlands.

On the way to his estate in Unterengstringen , he drowned while rescuing travelers with three of his children at what is now the Kornhausbrücke in the Limmat, about to take up a call to the University of Leiden . The sensational misfortune, publicly remembered in complaints and printed graphics , was caused by a stake hidden in the flood, on which the Weidling used for transport had driven.

His sons included the Hebraist Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1647–1692), the doctor and physicist Salomon Hottinger (1649–1713), the theologian Johann Jakob Hottinger (1652–1735) and the doctor and numismatist Johann Konrad Hottinger (1655–1730) .

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Hottinger, who was already considered to be one of the most important representatives of Zurich's Reformed scholarship, published numerous works on Zurich and European Reformation and church history, the history of the state and city of Zurich and on theological issues. In the field of oriental studies , treatises on Semitic languages, oriental history and antiquity as well as grammars stand out. His extensive reading is evident in the extensive catalogs and bibliographies he wrote, including the Arabic literature of the Leiden University Library and the holdings of the Zurich Civil Library .

From his publications stand out:

  • Historia ecclesiastica (1651–1667, 9 vols.)
  • Historia orientalis (Zurich 1651). doi: 10.3931 / e-rara-10820
  • Thesaurus philologicus, Clavis scripturae (Zurich 1649, 3rd edition 1669). doi: 10.3931 / e-rara-9903
  • Etymologicon orientale, sive Lexicon harmonicum heptaglotton (Heidelberg 1661)
  • Speculum Helvetico-Tigurinum pentágōnon, quo, breviter & succincte, de Helvetiorum, Tigurinorum cumprimis, agitur statu ... (Zurich 1665). doi: 10.3931 / e-rara-9883
  • Johann Heinrich Hottinger: Stammbuch (= album amicorum). Zurich etc., 1638–1654, Zurich Central Library, manuscripts, Ms D 207 ac. Doi: 10.7891 / e-manuscripta-53861

In addition to the printed publications, he left behind the still undeveloped “Thesaurus Hottingeranus”, an important collection of mostly unpublished writings and documents on the history of the church in the 16th and 17th centuries in 52 volumes, including letters with Martin, which is still in the Zurich Central Library Luther , Philipp Melanchthon , Erasmus von Rotterdam , Ulrich Zwingli , Rudolf Gwalther , Heinrich Bullinger , Konrad Pellikan , Theodor Zwinger , Theodor Beza , Josias Simmler , Aegidius Tschudi , Johann Jakob Breitinger as well as Hottinger's extensive own correspondence with outstanding Swiss and European scholars.

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Johann Heinrich Hottinger the Elder. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1079-1080.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Fritz Büsser: Johann Heinrich Hottinger and the "Thesaurus Hottingeranus" , in: Zwingliana 22 (1995), pp. 85-108 ( digitized version )
  • Hottinger d. Ä. In: Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1652-1802, Berlin, Heidelberg; Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp. 71-72.
  • Wilhelm Gaß :  Hottinger, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 192 f.
  • Seth Jerchower and Heidi G. Lerner: Johann Heinrich Hottinger and the Systematic Organization of Jewish Literature . In: Judaica Librarianship, Journal of the Association of Jewish Libraries, 13 (2007), pp. 1-25. doi: 10.14263 / 2330-2976.1080
  • Jan Loop: Johann Heinrich Hottinger: Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century . Oxford: Oxford-Warburg Studies, 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-968214-0 .
  • Jan Loop: The Swiss Orientalist Johann Heinrich Hottinger and the Leiden Manuscript Collection. Omslag. Bulletin van de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden en het Scaliger Instituut 9 (2012), pp. 4-6.
  • Mühling, Andreas: Reconstruction and denominational union. Johann Heinrich Hottinger in Heidelberg 1655–1661 . In: Zwingliana 22 (2000), pp. 47-62. (Digitized version )
  • Ferenc Postma and Arian Verheij: In Signum Benevoli Affectus II. Menasseh Ben Israels's Album Inscription for Johann Heinrich Hottinger . In: Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, 2009, pp. 75–79.
  • Pressel: Hottinger, Johann Heinrich . In: Johann Jakob Herzog (Ed.): Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church, Volume 6, Stuttgart / Hamburg 1856, pp. 287–290 ( GoogleBooks ).
  • Rudolf Pfister :  Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 656 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Sarah Rindlisbacher: With God's blessing and an official mandate. Johann Heinrich Hottinger's trip to the Zurich embassy to Protestant imperial princes and the Netherlands in 1664. In: Philippe Rogger, Nadir Weber (ed.): Observing, networking, negotiating. Diplomatic Actors and Political Cultures in the Early Modern Confederation (= Itinera. Supplement to the Swiss History Journal. Volume 45). Schwabe, Basel 2018.
  • Heinrich Steiner : The Zurich professor Johann Heinrich Hottinger in Heidelberg . Zurich 1886, digitized ( DjVu format).
  • Rosmarie Zeller: Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich Hottinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandro Zimmerli: [Hottinger and his country seat in:] Old Zurich country seats. When noble society discovered the Limmat Valley . In: Limmattaler Zeitung . April 9, 2016 ( limmattalerzeitung.ch ).
  2. ^ Johann Heinrich Heidegger: Historia vitae et obitus I. Henrici Hottingeri, viri clarissimi et incomparabilis ... Zurich 1667.
  3. ↑ Zurich Central Library, manuscripts, Ms F 36 - Ms F 87; Ms F 88 - Ms F 90 .
personal data
SURNAME Hottinger, Johann Heinrich, the elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss orientalist and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1667
Place of death near Zurich