Johann Jakob Hottinger

He was born in Zürich, the son of the Swiss philologist and theologian Johann Heinrich Hottinger.

[1] He studied theology at the Carolinum in Zürich, and also in Basel and Geneva.

In 1686 he was named deacon at the Grossmünster in Zürich, where in 1698 he succeeded Johann Heinrich Heidegger as professor of theology.

He was the author of numerous historical and polemical writings (over 100 publications).

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