HOTTINGER, JOHN HENRY, one of the most learned and eminent of the Protestant divines of Switzerland, was born at Zurich, in the year 1620. He discovered an invincible propensity to learning at a very early period, and acquired the knowledge of languages with astonishing facility. The trustees of the schools had their attention attracted towards Hottinger by his amazing progress in the knowledge of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, whom they determined to send to foreign universities at the public expense. In 1638 he studied for a short time at Geneva under the celebrated Spanheim, and went afterwards to France. He next visited Holland and Flanders, and became a student