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{{Short description|Swiss philologist and theologian (1620–1667)}}
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'''Johann Heinrich Hottinger''' (10 March 1620 – 5 June 1667) was a [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[philology|philologist]] and [[theology|theologian]].

== Life and works ==
Hottinger studied at [[Geneva]], [[Groningen]] and [[Leiden]]. After visiting [[France]] and [[England]] he was appointed professor of church history in his native town of [[Zürich]] in 1642. The chair of [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] at the [[Carolinum, Zürich|''Carolinum'' in Zürich]] was added in 1643, and in 1653 he was appointed professor ordinarius of logic, rhetoric and theology.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Hottinger, Johann Heinrich|volume=13|page=807}}</ref>

He gained such a reputation as an [[Orient]]al scholar that the [[Elector of the Palatinate]] in 1655 appointed him professor of Oriental languages and biblical criticism at the [[University of Heidelberg]].<ref name="EB1911"/> While in Heidelberg he also worked to reestablish the [[Collegium Sapientiae]], a Reformed theological seminary.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} In 1661 he returned to Zürich, where in 1662 he was appointed principal of the [[University of Zürich]]. In 1667 he accepted an invitation to succeed [[Johann Hoornbeck]] (1617–1666) as professor in the [[University of Leiden]]. Before he could take up this position he drowned with three of his children after the upsetting of a boat while crossing the river [[Limmat]].<ref name="EB1911"/> He was succeeded upon his death at the chair of theology in Zürich by his fellow Zürich-native younger namesake and former student at Heidelberg, [[Johann Heinrich Heidegger]].

His chief works are ''Historia ecclesiastica Nov. Test.'' (1651–1667); ''Thesaurus philologicus seu clavis scripturae'' (1649; 3rd edition 1698); ''Etymologicon orientale, sive lexicon harmonicum heptaglotton'' (1661). He also wrote a Hebrew and an [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] grammar.<ref name="EB1911"/>

[[File:Johann Heinrich Hottinger Ducat Gold Coin (1720).png|thumb|5 Ducat Austrian gold coin (1720) depicting Johann Heinrich Hottinger]]

==Family==
His son, [[Johann Jakob Hottinger (theologian)|Johann Jakob Hottinger]] (1652–1735), who became professor of theology at Zürich 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 [[dogma]]tics, ''Typus doctrinae christianae'' (1714).<ref name="EB1911"/>

== Works ==
*''Historia ecclesiastica'' ''Novi Testamenti'' 9 vols. (1651–1667)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=9XJBAAAAcAAJ ''Historia orientalis''] (Zürich 1651)
* ''[https://archive.org/details/cippihebraicisi00browgoog Cippi Hebraici]'' (''The Hebrews''), (1662, 2nd edition)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=j54UAAAAQAAJ&dq=inauthor%3A%22Johann%20Heinrich%20Hottinger%22&pg=PP1 ''Thesaurus philologicus, Clavis scripturae''] (''Philological Thesaurus, Key to Scripture''), Zürich 1649, 3rd edition 1669
*''Etymologicon orientale, sive Lexicon harmonicum heptaglotton'' (Heidelberg 1661)

==Further reading==
* {{BBKL|h/hottinger_j_h|autor=Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz|band=2|spalten=1079-1080}}
* {{Cite ADB|13|192|193|Hottinger, Johann Heinrich|Wilhelm Gaß|ADB:Hottinger, Johann Heinrich (der Ältere)}}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=4N4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA287 ''Hottinger, Johann Heinrich''], in Johann Jakob Herzog, ed. ''Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche,'' 6. Band, Stuttgart und Hamburg 1856, pp.&nbsp;287–290.
* Jan Loop, ''Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667) and the Historia Orientalis'', ''Church History and Religious Culture'' 88 (2008): 169-203.
* [[Rudolf Pfister (theologian)|Rudolf Pfister]] (1972). [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd104286547.html#ndbcontent "Hottinger"]. ''[[Neue Deutsche Biographie]]'' (in German). Vol. 9. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 656–657.
* Heinrich Steiner, [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steiner_Der_Z%C3%BCrcher_Professor_Hottinger.djvu ''Der Zürcher Professor Johann Heinrich Hottinger in Heidelberg''.] Zürich 1886.

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* {{HLS|10460|Johann Heinrich Hottinger|author=Rosmarie Zeller}}
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