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List of the most influential people in Religious Studies,

#3801

Raffaele Venusti

Raffaele Venusti was an Italian Catholic apologist. Biography He was born at Tirano, Valtellina, northern Italy, about the end of the fifteenth century. He joined the Canons Regular of SS. Salvatore, devoting himself to theological and canonical studies, and winning fame as a powerful Catholic controversialist against the Lutherans and Calvinists.

#3802

Nicolaus van Esch

1507 - 1578 (71 years)

Nicolaus van Esch was a Dutch Roman Catholic theologian and mystical writer. Life After finishing his classical studies in the school of the Hieronymites, he studied philosophy, theology, and canon law at the Catholic University of Leuven, but refused to take his doctor's degree. In 1530 he was ordained priest, and then settled in Cologne in order to devote himself to higher studies and the practice of Christian perfection.

#3803

William Erbery

1604 - 1654 (50 years)

William Erbery or Erbury was a Welsh clergyman and radical Independent theologian. He was the father of the militant Quaker Dorcas Erbery. Life Erbery was born in Roath, Cardiff. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, England in 1623.

#3804

Andrija Balović

1721 - 1784 (63 years)

Andrija Balović was a Roman Catholic priest, historian, writer, translator and theologian, native of Montenegro. Biography Born in Perast to a well-known patrician household Balovići, a family with six children. Andrija was the son of Marko Balović, and brother of Josip Balović, also the nephew of Julije Balović.

#3805

Johannes Heinrich Ursinus

Johannes Heinrich Ursinus

1608 - 1667 (59 years)

Johannes Heinrich Ursinus was a learned German author, scholar, Lutheran theologian, humanist and dean of Regensburg. Ursinus studied the Oriental roots of western philosophy and was the author of a scholastic encyclopaedia. He was a Rector in Mainz, preached in Weingarten, Speier and Regensburg, and had been a student in Straßburg. His Arboretum Biblicum, which appeared in 1663, was the first attempt of note to create a concordance of botanical references in the Bible, and predated the Hierozoicon, a zoological compendium of biblical animals, of Samuel Bochart. In all Ursinus published 13...

#3806

William May Wightman

1808 - 1882 (74 years)

Bishop William May Wightman was an American educator and clergyman. He served as the President of Wofford College from 1853 to 1859. He served as the Chancellor of Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama from 1860 to 1866. He became a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1866.

#3807

Walter of Saint Victor

1150 - 1180 (30 years)

Walter of Saint Victor was a mystic philosopher and theologian, and an Augustinian canon of Paris. Nothing is known about Walter except that, in about the year 1175, he was prior of St. Victor's Abbey, Paris; that about the time of the Third Lateran Council he wrote the celebrated polemic, Contra quatuor labyrinthos Franciae; and that he died about the year 1180.

#3808

Theodor Schott

1835 - 1899 (64 years)

Theodor Schott was a German Protestant theologian, historian and librarian, known for his studies involving the history of French Protestantism. From 1853 he studied theology and philosophy at Tübinger Stift in Tübingen, and after finishing his studies, spent two years as a curate at parishes in Württemberg. From 1859 he taught classes at Hofwyl near Bern, and later on, worked as a religious instructor at the gymnasium in Stuttgart. In 1867 he became a pastor of a parish in Berg, a suburb of Stuttgart. From 1873 up until his death, he served as a librarian at the royal public library in Stutt...

#3809

Rajab Bursi

Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi an Arab Shia theologian and mystic. Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi was born in contemporary Iraq, near Hilla, and moved to the Iranian province of Khurasan to escape accusations of heresy. Some sources indicate that he might have been murdered by the Timurids during the Shia persecutions.

#3810

Eustachy Trepka

1510 - 1559 (49 years)

Eustachy Trepka was a Polish Lutheran theologian, pastor, and translator. Trepka's family had its origins near Sieradz and Wielkopolska. According to some sources his family was nicknamed Nękanda with a coat of arms Topór.

#3811

Adam Cairns

1802 - 1881 (79 years)

Adam Cairns was a Scottish Presbyterian minister. In 1837 he became minister of Cupar. At the disruption in 1843 he sided with the Free Church, and was employed in parochial work until 1853, when he accepted a commission from the Colonial Committee of the Free Church to proceed to Melbourne, where he arrived in September of that year. There, amidst the excitement of the gold fever, he laid the foundations of Presbyterianism in Victoria, acting as pastor of the Chalmers Church Congregation till 1865, when, his health failing, he became an emeritus minister, retaining his standing in the Church without pastoral charge.

#3812

Edward Judson

1844 - 1914 (70 years)

Edward Judson was an American Baptist clergyman, born in Moulmein, British Burma, a son of the missionary Adoniram Judson and his second wife, Sarah Hall Boardman. He graduated from Brown University in 1863. In 1868, he was appointed professor of Latin and modern languages at Madison University. In 1874–75, he traveled abroad, and after being ordained into the Baptist ministry in the latter year, served as pastor of a church in Orange, N. J., until 1881. Thereafter to the time of his death, he occupied the pulpit of a New York City church first known as the Berean Church, later as the Memor...

#3813

Henry Scadding

1813 - 1901 (88 years)

Henry Scadding was a Canadian writer and Anglican clergyman. Life and career Scadding was born at Dunkeswell in Devon, England, and he immigrated to York, Upper Canada in 1821 with his parents, John Scadding and Melicent Triggs. He was educated at Upper Canada College and then attended St. John's College at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, from which he graduated in 1837.

#3814

Johann Eberlin von Günzburg

1465 - 1533 (68 years)

Johann Eberlin von Günzburg was a German theologian and reformer who became prominent as the author of reformist flysheets and pamphlets. Life Eberlin studied theology in Ingolstadt and qualified in 1490 in Basle as Master of Arts. In Heilbronn he joined the Franciscan Order. From 1493 he was in Freiburg im Breisgau, from 1519 in Tübingen, where he was active as a preacher, and from 1521 in Ulm. Here he left the order and joined the Reformation movement. Eberlin was married in 1524, he had 4 children.

#3815

Maximilian Nagel

1747 - 1772 (25 years)

Maximilian Nagel was a German theologian. Life Maximilian Nagel was born in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, the eldest of the 14 recorded children of the Hebrew scholar and Orientalist Johann Andreas Michael Nagel and of that man's wife, Maria Magdalena Riederer, daughter of the Nuremberg market superintendent. While Maximilian was still a child he was seen to be exceptionally talented, as a result of which his father paid particular attention to his education. In part he was taught directly by his father: in part he was sent to city school under Rector Kleemann. He thereby acquired a broad schoo...

#3816

Christian Schreiber

1781 - 1857 (76 years)

Christian Johann Christoph Schreiber was a German theologian, philologist, philosopher, and poet. He was also the Superintendent of the dioceses of Lengsfeld and Dermbach. He was connected in friendship or correspondence to writers and philosophers of his time, and published poetry, sermons, historical and philosophical works.

#3817

Daniel de Superville

Daniel de Superville

1657 - 1728 (71 years)

Daniel de Superville , also known as Daniel de Superville père , was a Huguenot pastor and theologian who fled France for the Dutch Republic in 1685 and became the minister of the Walloon church in Rotterdam. He is known particularly for his published Sermons.

#3818

Jacobus Taurinus

1576 - 1618 (42 years)

Jacobus Taurinus was a Dutch preacher and theologian, a main supporter of the Remonstrants and polemical writer in their cause. Life He was born in Schiedam, where his father Petrus Taurinus was a preacher of the Reformed Church. He studied theology at the University of Leiden from 14 November 1590, under Franciscus Junius the Elder, Lucas Trelcatius, Petrus Bertius and Franciscus Gomarus; and associated with Willem van Zyll, Karl Ryckewaert, Everardus Booth, Johann Narsius, Eduardus Poppius, and Simon Goulart the Younger.

#3819

John Barningham

John Barningham was an English theologian. Life Barningham was educated at Oxford and Paris, in both of which places he is said to have taken his degree as master in theology. In later years he was appointed prior of Ipswich Whitefriars , where he died an old man on 22 January 1448. His older biographers praise his skill in disputation.

#3820

Abul Hasan Hankari

1018 - 1093 (75 years)

Abul Hasan Hankari Abu Al Hasan Ali Bin Mohammad Qureshi Hashmi Hankari Harithi , town of Mosul , died 1st Moharram 486 AH , in Baghdad, was a Muslim mystic also renowned as one of the most influential Muslim scholar, philosopher, theologian and jurist of his time and Sufi based in Hankar.

#3821

Louis Cellot

1588 - 1658 (70 years)

Louis Cellot was a French Jesuit, known as a theological writer. Life He was born in Paris, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1605. He was occupied in studied of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and initially taught these subjects. He spent time at Rouen, and then La Flèche, before becoming provincial of his order in France. He died in Paris.

#3822

John Moore

1646 - 1714 (68 years)

John Moore was Bishop of Norwich and Bishop of Ely and was a famous bibliophile whose vast collection of books forms the surviving "Royal Library" within Cambridge University Library. Origins Bishop John Moore was descended from the ancient family of De La Moor , of Moore Hayes in the parish of Cullompton in Devonshire, England. He was born in Market Harborough in Leicestershire, the son of Thomas Moore , an ironmonger of Market Harborough, by his wife Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Edward Wright of Sutton in the parish of Broughton, Leicestershire. The Bishop's paternal grandfather was Rev....

#3823

Roswell Parkhurst Barnes

1902 - 1969 (67 years)

Reverend Roswell Parkhurst Barnes was an American theologian and Christian religious leader, advocate and author in the 20th century. He was married to Helen Bosworth. Life Barnes was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on July 10, 1901, into a Calvinist family with generations of Presbyterian ministers. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English at Lafayette College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a bachelor's divinity degree at the Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. He was later awarded honorary doctorates by Lafayette and Cedar Crest College. After attending New York University and Columbia University, Barnes spent several years as an educator.

#3824

Giacomo Nacchiante

1502 - 1569 (67 years)

Giacomo Nacchiante, O.P. was an Italian Dominican theologian who was Bishop of Chioggia . Early Biography Giacomo Nacchiante was born in Florence, Italy. He was placed by his father under the protection of the superintendent of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence's foundling hospital, in 1509.

#3825

Joannes Miraeus

Joannes Miraeus

1560 - 1611 (51 years)

Joannes Miraeus, Latinized from Jean Le Mire was the fourth bishop of Antwerp. Life Le Mire was born in Brussels on 6 January 1560. He was educated in the city, and began studies at Louvain University, but due to the unsettled condition of the city during the Dutch Revolt moved to Douai University instead. At Douai he completed his Liberal Arts degree, taught Greek, and in 1588 graduated Licentiate of Sacred Theology. In 1591 he was appointed to Saint Jacques-sur-Coudenberg in Brussels, and not long afterwards became a canon of the collegiate church of St Gudula.

#3826

Frederik Torm

1870 - 1953 (83 years)

Frederik Emanuel Torm was a Danish theologian. He was born in Tschifu, China as a son of ship-owner Ditlev Torm and Elise H. M. Zoëga . His father was a shipmaster in East Aia until the early 1870s. In July 1904 in Copenhagen he married teacher Elisif Thaulow .

#3827

Gerson ben Solomon Catalan

1288 - 1344 (56 years)

Gerson ben Solomon Catalan, also known as Gerson ben Solomon of Arles, was a French Jewish author of the thirteenth century. He compiled an encyclopedia entitled Sha'ar ha-Shamayim in Hebrew, which was widely read later in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. He lived in southern France , possibly at Arles. He died, possibly at Perpignan, toward the end of the thirteenth century.

#3828

Ludwig Weber

1846 - 1922 (76 years)

Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ludwig Weber was a German Protestant pastor and social reformer. He was a pastor in Mönchengladbach. He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Social Congress and was chairman of the Association of Protestant workers' associations in Germany.

#3829

Valpy French

1825 - 1891 (66 years)

Thomas Valpy French was an English Christian Missionary in India and Persia, who became the first Bishop of Lahore, in 1877, and also founded the St. John's College, Agra, in 1853. After Henry Martyn, French is considered the second most important Christian missionary to the Middle East.

#3830

Fath al-Din Ibn Sayyid al-Nas

1272 - 1334 (62 years)

Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Ya'mari, better known as Fatḥ al-Dīn Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, was a Medieval Egyptian theologian who specialized in the field of Hadith, or the recorded prophecies and traditions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. He was well known for his biography of Muhammad.

#3831

Giovanni Lorenzo Berti

1696 - 1766 (70 years)

Giovanni Lorenzo Berti , also known by his Latinized name Johannes Laurentius Berti, was an Italian Augustinian theologian. The General of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, Schiaffinati, instructed him to write a book, to be used by all the students of the Order, expounding the whole of Augustine of Hippo's thought and particularly his doctrine of grace and free will. His huge Opus de Theologicis Disciplinis expounded not the private views of a theologian, but those of the Augustinian Order and therefore had a semi-official status in the Roman Catholic Church.

#3832

Thomas Grynaeus

1512 - 1564 (52 years)

Thomas Grynaeus was a theologian, reformer and pastor. Life Thomas Grynaeus grew up the son of a peasant in the Veringendorf, Württemberg. Grynaeus's uncle Simon Grynaeus was a school friend Philipp Melanchthon. Thomas studied Greek and Latin in Heidelberg and Basel and followed Simon Sulzer to the Bern Academy, where he served as professor of Classical languages. He was released from his post for introducing Lutheran views of the Lord's Supper. He moved to Basel served as teacher and later prefect of the Basel Pädagogium. After the Reformation of the Baden-Durlach by Margrave Charles II in 1556, Grynaeus became pastor in 1558 at St.

#3833

Władysław Oporowski

Władysław Oporowski

1395 - 1453 (58 years)

Władysław Oporowski was a Polish medieval political and religious leader. Deputy Chancellor of Poland , Bishop of Kujawy , archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland . It is recognized that he was a much better diplomat and politician than church official.

#3834

Charles Marriott

1811 - 1858 (47 years)

Charles Marriott was an Anglican priest, a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and one of the members of the Oxford Movement. He was responsible for editing more than half of the volumes of their series of translations, the Library of the Fathers.

#3835

John of Legnano

John of Legnano

1320 - 1383 (63 years)

John of Legnano was an Italian jurist, a canon lawyer at the University of Bologna and the most prominent defender of Pope Urban VI at the outbreak of the Western Schism. Biography John was born in Legnano.

#3836

Charles Abel Heurtley

1806 - 1895 (89 years)

Charles Abel Heurtley was an English theologian. Heurtley was educated at Louth Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of which college he was a Fellow from 1832 to 1841 when he became Rector of Fenny Compton. He was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1853 until his death.

#3837

Johannes Mensing

1477 - 1547 (70 years)

Johannes Mensing was a German Dominican theologian and controversialist, an opponent of Martin Luther. He was considered formidable for his theological knowledge and command of the German language.

#3838

Nikolaus von Laun

1300 - 1371 (71 years)

Nikolaus von Laun, O.E.S.A. was a Bohemian Augustinian friar and scholar. He served as the Prior Provincial of the large Province of Bavaria-Bohemia. Nikolaus was one of the first Theology professors at Charles University in Prague . He wrote several works in the subject area of homiletics. Between 1362 and his death in 1371 he served as a bishop.

#3839

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.

#3840

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.

#3841

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.

#3842

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.

#3843

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.

#3844

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.

#3845

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.

#3846

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...

#3847

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.

#3848

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.

#3849

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...

#3850

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.

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