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#3051

Alexander Whitaker

1585 - 1616 (31 years)

Alexander Whitaker was an English Anglican theologian who settled in North America in Virginia Colony in 1611 and established two churches near the Jamestown colony. He was also known as "The Apostle of Virginia" by contemporaries.

#3052

Jean de Gagny

1401 - 1549 (148 years)

Jean de Gagny was a French theologian. He was at the Collège de Navarre in 1524. He became Rector of the University of Paris, in 1531, and Almoner Royal, in 1536. In 1546 he became Chancellor of the University of Paris.

#3053

Henry Pendleton

Henry Pendleton was an English churchman, a theologian and controversialist. Life He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, 18 July 1552. Though he had preached against Lutheranism in Henry VIII's reign, he conformed under Edward VI and was appointed by Lord Derby as an itinerant Protestant preacher. In 1552 he received the living of Blymhill, Staffordshire.

#3054

Joseph McCormick

1733 - Present (293 years)

Joseph McCormick FRSE FSA was a Scottish clergyman who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1782 and was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.

#3055

Sidi Brahim Riahi

1766 - 1850 (84 years)

Ibrahim Riahi, birth name Abou Ishak Ibrahim Ben Abdelkader Riahi , was a Tunisian ambassador, theologian and saint. A Sunni Muslim scholar, he was also a poet. He was the grandfather of Ali Riahi. Biography Ibrahim Riahi learned about the group of academics and lawyers from Tunisia, in particular: Hamza Al-Jibas, Saleh Al-Kawash, Muhammad Al-Fassi, Omar Bin Qassem Al-Mahjoub, Hassan Al-Sharif, Ahmed Bou Khurais, Ismail Al-Tamimi, Al-Taher Ben Massoud, and others.

#3056

Martin Gusinde

1886 - 1969 (83 years)

Martín Gusinde was an Austrian priest and ethnologist famous for his work in anthropology, particularly on the native groups of Tierra del Fuego. He was one of the most notable anthropologists in Chile in the first half of the 20th century, together with Max Uhle and Aureliano Oyarzún Navarro.

#3057

Samuel Eaton

1596 - 1665 (69 years)

Samuel Eaton was an English independent divine. Life Eaton was the third son of Richard Eaton, vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire, and was born in the hamlet of Crowley in Great Budworth. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1624 and M.A. 1628.

#3058

W. A. B. Coolidge

W. A. B. Coolidge

1850 - 1926 (76 years)

William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge was an American historian, theologian and mountaineer. Life Coolidge was born in New York City as the son of Frederic William Skinner Coolidge, a Boston merchant, and Elisabeth Neville Brevoort, sister of James Carson Brevoort and Meta Brevoort. He studied history and law at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and at Exeter College, Oxford. In 1875, he became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. From 1880 to 1881 he was professor of British history at Saint David's College in Lampeter and in 1883 he became a priest o...

#3059

Jacques Leclercq

1891 - 1971 (80 years)

Jacques Leclercq was a Belgian Roman Catholic theologian and priest. Life He received a degree in law from the Université libre de Bruxelles and one in philosophy from the University of Louvain , and was ordained a priest in 1917. He was a theologian and a professor at Saint-Louis University, Brussels, Belgium and the UCLouvain. In 1926 he founded the revue La Cité chrétienne.

#3060

Bartolommeo Fumo

Bartolommeo Fumo was an Italian Dominican theologian. Life Fumo was born at Villo , near Piacenza in Italy. At an early age he entered the Dominican Order and made great progress in all the ecclesiastical sciences, but especially in canon law. He was distinguished as an inquisitor at Piacenza.

#3061

Samuel Presbiter

1200 - 1300 (100 years)

Samuel Presbiter was a theologian, a student of William de Montibus at the cathedral school in Lincoln, England. He is the creator of several works he designates 'Collecta', preserved in two manuscripts from Bury St Edmunds Abbey, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 860 and Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 115. The common origin of these manuscripts suggests that he was also a monk at the abbey. His works typically consist of poems summarizing his learning, created for mnemonic purposes, together with prose extracts. Four of his works have been published in full or in part: his versificati...

#3062

Valère Regnault

1543 - 1623 (80 years)

Valère Regnault or Regnauld was a French Jesuit theologian. Life He was born in the diocese of Besançon. He studied under Juan Maldonado at the Collège de Clermont, where he was one of the first pupils. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1573. He taught philosophy at the Collège de Bordeaux, then moral theology in several colleges.

#3063

Anthony of Sienna

Anthony of Sienna was a Portuguese Dominican theologian, so called because of his great veneration for Saint Catherine of Siena. He was born near Braga in Portugal. He studied at Lisbon, Coimbra, and Louvain, eventually coming to teach philosophy at Louvain. There he was made Doctor of Theology in 1571, and in 1574 was put in charge of the Dominican college there.

#3064

William Josiah Irons

1812 - 1883 (71 years)

William Josiah Irons was a priest in the Church of England and a theological writer. Life Irons, born at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, 12 September 1812, was second son of the Rev. Joseph Irons , by his first wife, Mary Ann, daughter of William Broderick. His mother died in 1828. His father, a popular evangelical preacher, born at Ware, Hertfordshire, on 5 November 1785, commenced preaching in March 1808 under the auspices of the London Itinerant Society, was ordained an independent minister on 21 May 1814, was stationed at Hoddesdon from 1812 to 1815, and at Sawston, near Cambridge, from 1815 to...

#3065

Ammar al-Basri

Ammar al-Basri was a 9th-century East Syriac theologian and apologist. Ammar's work is considered the first systematic Christian theology in Arabic. Not much is known about his life except that he was a native of Basra.

#3066

Boverius

1568 - 1638 (70 years)

Giovanni Boveri was an Italian jurist, who became a Capuchin Friar Minor, taking the name Zacharias. He is known as a historian and theologian. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia he was a “man of great learning not only as an historian, but as a controversial writer”.

#3067

José de Sigüenza

José de Sigüenza

1544 - 1606 (62 years)

José de Sigüenza was a monk of the Order of Saint Jerome , historian , poet and theologian. He was the prior of the monastery of El Escorial, where he served as both librarian and historian. He is best known for his works on ecclesiastical history, in particular his History of the Order of St. Jerome , which discusses in detail the construction of El Escorial. He also wrote a work on the life of Saint Jerome, published in 1595. He left unfinished a book on the life of Jesus that goes only as far as the adoration of the shepherds and was not printed until 1916 in three books.

#3068

Robert Falconer

Robert Falconer

1867 - 1943 (76 years)

Sir Robert Alexander Falconer was a Canadian academic and bible scholar. Life He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the eldest child of a Presbyterian minister and his wife. He attended high school in Port of Spain, Trinidad while his father was posted there and won a scholarship to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He graduated MA in 1889 and then spent three years at the divinity school of the Free Church of Scotland.

#3069

Henry James

1864 - 1949 (85 years)

Henry Lewis James was Dean of Bangor from 1934 to 1940 and an author of theological works in Welsh. Life James was born on 18 March 1864 and educated at Ystrad Meurig School, Christ College, Brecon and Jesus College, Oxford where he obtained a second-class degree in Literae Humaniores. He was ordained in 1887 and served as a curate in Llandudno, later becoming warden of Bangor Church Hostel and, in 1901, rector of Llangefni. He was rector of Tredington, Worcestershire before becoming rector of Aberffraw and, between 1926 and 1930, rector of Dolgellau. Having been made an honorary canon of...

#3070

Adalberon

947 - 1030 (83 years)

Adalberon, or Ascelin , was a French bishop and poet. He was a son of Reginar of Bastogne, and a nephew of Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims. He studied at Reims and was in the chapter of Metz Cathedral. He became bishop of Laon in 977.

#3071

Hassan al-Jabarti

1698 - 1774 (76 years)

Hassan al-Jabarti was a Somali mathematician, theologian, astronomer and philosopher who lived in Cairo, Egypt during the 18th century. Biography Al-Jabarti was the father of the historian Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, and originated from the Somali city of Zeila. Hassan is considered one of the great scholars of the 18th century. He frequently conducted experiments in his own house, which was visited and observed by Western students.

#3072

Manuel Kalekas

1360 - 1410 (50 years)

Manuel Kalekas was a monk and theologian of the Byzantine Empire. Kalekas was a disciple of Demetrios Kydones. He lived in Italy, Crete and Lesbos where he translated the works of Boethius and Anselm of Canterbury into Greek, and several Latin liturgical Texts such as the Missa Ambrosiana in Nativitate Domini. Kalekas translated the Comma Johanneum into Greek from the Vulgate.

#3073

Lars Tammelin

1669 - 1733 (64 years)

Lars Tammelin also known as Laurentius Gabrielis Tammelinus was a Finnish mathematician and prelate who was the Bishop of Turku from 1728 to 1733. Biography Tammelin was born on 2 May 1669 in Turku in the Swedish Empire, the son of Gabriel Larsson Tammelinus and Anna Eriksdotter Pihl. He began his studies in Turku and was enrolled at the academy in Turku in 1683. In 1698 he became a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academy of Turku. In August of the following year, he undertook a study trip through Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands where he enrolled at Leiden University on 27 November 1698.

#3074

Lambert Daneau

1535 - 1595 (60 years)

Lambert Daneau was a French jurist and Calvinist theologian. Life He was born at Beaugency-sur-Loire, and educated at Orléans. He studied Greek under Adrianus Turnebus, and then law in Orléans from 1553. He moved to Bourges in 1559; he was particularly influenced by François Hotman, and by Anne du Bourg, who was executed in that year for heresy.

#3075

William H. Bennett

1910 - 1980 (70 years)

William Hunter Bennett was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1970 until his death. Bennett was born in Taber, Alberta, Canada. He attended the School of Agriculture in Raymond, Alberta, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in agriculture from Utah State University in the US, followed by a Ph.D. in agriculture from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He joined the faculty of USU as a professor of agronomy.

#3076

Manilal C. Parekh

1885 - 1967 (82 years)

Manilal Chhotalal Parekh , a Gujarati convert to Anglican church, was an Indian Christian theologian, and the founder of Hindu Church of Christ—free from Western influence - opposing Western and institutional nature of Christianity in India.

#3077

John Wickham Legg

1843 - 1921 (78 years)

John Wickham Legg was an English physician and published on medical subjects, and later almost exclusively on liturgy and ecclesiology. Life and career He was the third son of the printer and bookseller George Legg, and was born at Alverstoke near Portsmouth in Hampshire, England, on 28 December 1843. He was educated at Winchester College and from there he went to New College, Oxford and subsequently opted to read Medicine at University College, London, where he studied under Sir William Jenner. Having qualified as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, he was recommended by Jenner for th...

#3078

Antonio degli Agli

1400 - 1477 (77 years)

Antonio degli Agli was a Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Volterra , Bishop of Fiesole , and Bishop of Dubrovnik . Biography On 24 December 1465, Antonio degli Agli was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul II as Bishop of Dubrovnik. On 4 May 1467, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul II as Bishop of Fiesole. On 30 April 1470, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul II as Bishop of Volterra. He served as Archbishop of Volterra until his death in 1477.

#3079

Johannes Hoffmann von Schweidnitz

1375 - 1451 (76 years)

Johannes Hoffmann von Schweidnitz was a Roman Catholic theologian, Professor of Theology and Rector at both Prague and Leipzig Universities, and served as Bishop of Meissen from 1427 until his death.

#3080

Sylvester Kosiv

1607 - 1657 (50 years)

Sylvester Kossów, Kosiv or Kosov was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1647 to 1657. He reigned during the Khmelnytsky uprising.

#3081

Henry Watkins

1844 - 1922 (78 years)

Henry William Watkins was an Anglican priest, academic and author. Born in Abergavenny on 19 January 1844, he was educated at King's College London and Balliol College, Oxford. Ordained in 1870 his first post was as a curate at St Nicholas, Pluckley after which he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock. He was a censor, tutor and lecturer in Greek Testament at King's College London from 1875 and Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy from 1877. He became Warden of St Augustine's College, Canterbury in 1879; then held the three archdeaconries of the Diocese of Durham in quick succession: A...

#3082

Simon of Tournai

1130 - 1201 (71 years)

Simon of Tournai was a professor at the University of Paris in the late twelfth century. His date of birth is uncertain, but he was teaching before 1184, as he signed a document at the same time as Gerard de Pucelle, the Bishop of Coventry, who died that year.

#3083

Diogo de Paiva de Andrade

1528 - 1575 (47 years)

Diogo de Payva de Andrada was a celebrated Portuguese theologian of the sixteenth century. Biography He was born at Coimbra, the son of the grand treasurer of João III. His original bent was towards foreign mission. After finishing his course at the University of Coimbra, he was ordained to the priesthood, and remained as professor of theology.

#3084

Richard Brinkley

1330 - 1379 (49 years)

Richard Brinkley was an English Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian. He was at the University of Oxford in the mid-fourteenth century; he produced a Summa Logicae in a nominalist vein in the 1360s or early 1370s, and other works.

#3085

Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen

1367 - 1398 (31 years)

Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen was a Dutch mystical writer and one of the first of the Brothers of the Common Life. His name has many variations, including "Gerardus de Zutphania", "Gerardus Zutphaniensis", "Zerbold van Zutphen", "Gerhard Zerbolt von Zutfen", "Gerardus Zerboltus", etc.

#3086

Peter Mews

1619 - 1706 (87 years)

Peter Mews was an English Royalist theologian and bishop. He was a captain captured at Naseby and he later had discussions in Scotland for the Royalist cause. Later made a bishop he would report on non-conformist families.

#3087

Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari

1067 - 1139 (72 years)

Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari , was an important representative of the Sunni theological school of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi and the author of Talkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al-Tawhid which is a voluminous kalam work.

#3088

Christian Reineccius

Christian Reineccius

1668 - 1752 (84 years)

Christian Reineccius was an 18th-century Saxon theologian. He was born in Großmühlingen in the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst. As rector of the gymnasium of Weissenfels, his writings served the study of Hebrew. He translated the Old and the New Testament into four languages .

#3089

Edward Michael Wigglesworth

1693 - 1765 (72 years)

Edward Michael Wigglesworth was a clergyman, teacher and theologian in Colonial America. His father was clergyman and author Michael Wigglesworth . Life Edward Wigglesworth was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated Harvard College in 1710, and in 1722 he was appointed to the newly created Hollis Chair, thereby becoming the first divinity professor commissioned in the American colonies. He was made a Doctor of Divinity in 1730; he died in Cambridge on January 16, 1765, at age 73 after holding the chair for more than 42 years. From 1733 to 1756, Wigglesworth was recorded as owning a sl...

#3090

Cornelis Reineri

1525 - 1609 (84 years)

Cornelis Reineri or Reyneri, Latinized Cornelius Goudanus was a Dutch Catholic theologian who spent his entire adult life at the University of Leuven. Life Reineri was born in Gouda in 1525. He matriculated at Pig College, Leuven, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1549, the first of the 163 students in his year. From 1550 to 1554 he was professor of philosophy. On 1 June 1568 he graduated Doctor of Sacred Theology, and was appointed to a professorship in theology and a canonry in St. Peter's Church, Leuven. Together with Joannes Molanus and Augustinus Hunnaeus he was a member of the committee of theologians who oversaw Franciscus Lucas Brugensis's revision of the Leuven Vulgate .

#3091

John Murton

1585 - 1626 (41 years)

John Murton , also known as John Morton, was a co-founder of the Baptist faith in Great Britain. John Murton had been a furrier by trade in Gainsborough-on-Trent and was a member of the 1607 Gainsborough Congregation that relocated to Amsterdam. Murton had been a close disciple of John Smyth while in Holland and eventually Murton returned to London with Thomas Helwys and his church.

#3092

Thomas Blake

1596 - 1657 (61 years)

Thomas Blake was an English Puritan clergyman and controversialist of moderate Presbyterian sympathies. He worked in Tamworth, Staffordshire and in Shrewsbury, from which he was ejected over the Engagement controversy. He disputed in print with Richard Baxter over admission to baptism and the Lords Supper.

#3093

Edward James

1557 - 1588 (31 years)

Edward James was an English Catholic priest and martyr. Education James was born at Barton, Breaston, near Long Eaton, Derbyshire. He was educated at Derby School, St John's College, Oxford, the English college at Rheims and the Venerable English College at Rome. In early October 1579, he and William Filby sailed from Dover for Calais. Arriving in Rheims, he took up rooms with Edward Stransham. The following August, James and ten others travelled to the English College, Rome. In October 1583, James was ordained as a priest in Rome by Bishop Thomas Goldwell, the last survivor of the English bi...

#3094

Antal Both

1875 - 1963 (88 years)

Antal Both was a Hungarian teacher, pedagogue and Roman Catholic theologian. Life Antal Both was a descendant of the Botfalvi Both family of noble origins, having its ancestral residence in Ung County. He was born on September 2, 1875, in Nagyberezna , as the son of the Roman Catholic Ferdinand Both. At that time, the settlement had mixed national and religious population, with a majority of Rusine and German inhabitants. Ferdinand, the father of Antal Both, set up a pharmacy in this town. In 1885, when Antal was 10 years old, his parents enrolled him in the Piarist grammar school in Nagykároly .

#3095

Timoléon Cheminais de Montaigu

1652 - 1689 (37 years)

Timoléon Cheminais de Montaigu was a French Jesuit pulpit orator. Biography He was born in Paris on 3 January 1652; he entered the Society of Jesus at fifteen. After teaching rhetoric and the humanities at Orléans, Cheminais was assigned to the work of preaching. Bayle declares that "many regarded him as the equal of Bourdaloue", though others consider this exaggerated.

#3096

Guerric of Saint-Quentin

Guerric of Saint-Quentin was a Dominican friar, theologian and teacher at the University of Paris from 1233/5 until 1242. He wrote several works on biblical exegesis and theology. Along with Alexander of Hales, he is often credited with inventing the genre of the quodlibeta.

#3097

Benedicto Sánchez de Herrera

1598 - 1674 (76 years)

Benedicto Sánchez de Herrera or Benito Sánchez de Herrera was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pozzuoli , and Bishop of Monopoli . Biography Benedicto Sánchez de Herrera was born in Navas de Jorquera, Spain in 1598. On 17 October 1653, he was selected by the King as Bishop of Monopoli and confirmed by Pope Innocent X on 12 January 1654. On 18 January 1654, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta, Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli, with Patrizio Donati, Bishop Emeritus of Minori, and Giuseppe Ciantes, Bishop of Marsico Nuovo, serving as co-consecrators.

#3098

Al-Sayyid al-Tanukhi

1417 - 1479 (62 years)

Al-Amir al-Sayyid Jamal al-Din 'Abdalla al-Tanukhi was a Druze theologian and commentator. He has been described as "the most deeply revered individual in Druze history after the hudud who founded and propagated the faith." He is mostly famous for writing many books referred to as "al sharh" or الشرح in Arabic which means "the explanation." As their title suggests, these books are a deep explanation of the Epistles of Wisdom. His tomb in Aabey, Lebanon is a site of pilgrimage for the Druze. He is credited with establishing a council of Initiates which brought together the Druze of the Chouf m...

#3099

Dirc van Delf

1365 - 1404 (39 years)

Dirc van Delf, sometimes anglicized Dirk of Delft , was a Dutch Dominican theologian. Dirc was probably born at Delft in the County of Holland around 1365 and education from youth by the Dominicans in Utrecht. He earned a doctorate of theology. On 17 December 1391, he was hired as a chaplain at the court of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland, in The Hague. He was a lecturer and regent of the universities of Erfurt and Cologne. The last record of a payment to Dirc from the duke is dated July 1404, and he was certainly not kept on after Albert's death in December 1404.

#3100

John Felton

John Felton was an English academic and churchman. Felton was fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, and professor of theology, and 'vicarius Magdalensis Oxonii extra muros.’ His zeal as a preacher gained him the name of ‘homiliarius’ or ‘concionator;’ for though, as Leland tells us, he was ‘an eager student of philosophy and theology,’ yet ‘the mark towards which he earnestly pressed with eye and mind was none other than that by his continual exhortations he might lead the dwellers on the Isis from the filth of their vices to the purity of virtue.’ He published several volumes of sermo...

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