Johann Jakob Hottinger (historian)

He was a great-grandson of philologist Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620–1667).

He studied theology at the Carolinum in Zürich, receiving his ordination in 1804.

Afterwards, he taught classes in an upper Töchterschule and at an art school in Zürich.

[1][2] Following the death of Robert Glutz-Blotzheim, he continued the work on Johannes von Müller's multi-volume Geschichten schweizerischer Eidgenossenschaft ("History of the Swiss Confederation").

His biography of Ulrich Zwingli, Huldreich Zwingli und seine Zeit, was translated into English and published as: The life and times of Ulric Zwingli (1856).