Hottinger, Johann Heinrich°

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HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH°

HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH ° (1620–1667), Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegesis. Born in Zurich, Hottinger taught Oriental languages at the universities of Zurich and Heidelberg. Of his many works on theology and philology, special mention should be made of Grammatica quattuor linguarum Hebraicae, Chaldaicae, Syriacae et Arabicae Harmonica (Heidelberg, 1659), a comprehensive grammar of Hebrew, Aramaic, Chaldean, and Syriac; Erotematum linguae sanctae (Zurich, 1647), a Hebrew grammar, which appeared in a revised edition as Grammatica linguae sanctae (ibid., 1666); and Rabbi Isaac Abravanel Commentarium super Danielem prophetam (Zurich, 1647).

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Steinschneider, in: zhb, 3 (1898), 49; Steinschneider, Handbuch, 65–66; Steinschneider, Cat Bod, 1048, no. 5248; Fuerst, Bibliotheca, 1 (1863), 414–5; Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, 4 (1927), 296–7.