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A Swiss Protestant theologian, grandson of the preceding, was born at Zurich Dec. 5,1681. He studied theology at the universities of Zurich, Geneva, and Amsterdam, and in 1704 was appointed professor of philosophy at Marburg. In 1705 he became professor of Hebrew antiquities, and in 1710 professor of theology. To strictly Calvinistic views he added most of Cocceius's principles, and from this mixture resulted a system of his own, which he set forth in a treatise on dogmatics, entitled Typus Doctrince Christiatnce (Francf. ad Main, 1714, 8vo). This work created great excitement; the author was accused of inculcating mystical doctrines, and was obliged to resign his position in 1717. Hottinger retired to Frankenthal, where he became pastor of the Reformed Church. In 1721 he was appointed professor of theology at Heidelberg, where he died April 7, 1750. The most important of his later writings are Disquisitio de Revelationibus extraordinariis in genere et de quibusdam hodiernis vulgo dictis inspiratis in specie (1717, 8vo), in which he treats of the prophets of the Cevenlnes, who were just then attracting great attention in Germany. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gé neralé, 25:239; Hilgenfeld, Zeitfschrift f. wissenschaftl. Theol. 1868, p. 31. (J. N. P.)