HOTTINGER (John Henry), born at Zurich in Switzerland in 1620, professed the Oriental languages at Leyden, and was esteemed by all his learned colleagues. He was drowned, with part of his family, in the river Lemit, in the year 1667. He wrote a prodigious number of works; the principal of which are, 1. Exercitationes Anti-Moriniana de Pentateuco Samaritano, quarto, in which he defends the Hebrew text against father Morin. 2. Historia Orientalis, quarto. 3. Bibliothecarius quadripartitus. 4. Thefaurus Philologicus Sacrae Scripturae, quarto. 5. Historia Ecclesiastica. 6. Promptuarium, sive Bibliotheca Orientalis, 4to. 7. Dissertationes miscellanea, &c.