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#4251

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.

#4252

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.

#4253

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...

#4254

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.

#4255

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...

#4256

John Browne

1687 - 1764 (77 years)

John Browne was an Oxford academic and administrator. He was Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, and also served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Biography John Browne was the sixth son of Richard Browne of Marton, Yorkshire. On 23 May 1704, he matriculated as a student at University College, Oxford, and was then elected as a Browne Exhibitioner on 16 November 1705. On 27 October 1708, he was elected to be a Freeston Minor Exhibitioner and later on 23 August 1711 he was elected as a Skirlaw Fellow.

#4257

Henry de Beaume

1367 - 1439 (72 years)

Henry de Beaume, O.F.M. , , also known as Hugh Balme, was a Franciscan friar, priest and theologian. He became a supporter of the reform work of Colette of Corbie, among the Poor Clare nuns, which, in turn, led a reform movement of his own branch of the Franciscan Order. He is honored as a Blessed within the Order.

#4258

Thomas Burgess

1756 - 1837 (81 years)

Thomas Burgess was an English author, philosopher, Bishop of St Davids and Bishop of Salisbury, who was greatly influential in the development of the Church in Wales. He founded St David's College, Lampeter, was a founding member of the Odiham Agricultural Society, helped establish the Royal Veterinary College in London, and was the first president of the Royal Society of Literature.

#4259

Nathaniel Herrick Griffin

1814 - 1876 (62 years)

Nathaniel Herrick Griffin, D.D. was an American Presbyterian minister. Griffin was born at Southampton, L.I., December 28, 1814. He graduated from Williams College, Mass., in 1834; spent two years in Princeton Theological Seminary; was a tutor in his alma mater in 1836-37; became thereafter stated supply successively at Westhampton, N.Y., and at Franklin; was ordained by the Presbytery June 27, 1839; was pastor at Delhi; acted as assistant professor in Williams College , and: as a teacher in Brooklyn , professor of Latin and Greek in Williams College , of Greek , a teacher in Williamstown, Mass.

#4260

Wawrzyniec z Raciborza

1381 - 1448 (67 years)

Wawrzyniec z Raciborza was an Upper Silesian theologian, active in Kraków, Poland.

#4261

Michael Weiße

1488 - 1534 (46 years)

Michael Weiße or Weisse was a German theologian, Protestant reformer and hymn writer. First a Franciscan, he joined the Bohemian Brethren. He published the most extensive early Protestant hymnal in 1531, supplying most hymn texts and some tunes himself. One of his hymns was used in Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion.

#4262

William Pemble

1592 - 1623 (31 years)

William Pemble was an English theologian and author. Biography A student of Richard Capel at Magdalen College, Oxford, Pemble became reader and tutor at Magdalen. All of Pemble's works were published posthumously.

#4263

James Strong

1833 - 1913 (80 years)

Dr. James Woodward Strong , an American theologian and scholar, was the first president of Carleton College, Minnesota. Despite lifelong illness and injury, Strong was a highly active man throughout his life, juggling multiple professional and personal occupations.

#4264

William Hyde

1597 - 1651 (54 years)

William Hyde was an English Roman Catholic convert and priest, presumed to be of Dutch or Flemish background, who became President of the English College, Douai. Life His real surname was Bayart or Beyard, and he was born in London on 27 March 1597. He entered Leyden University on 16 June 1610. He matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, in October 1614, and graduated B.A. in December of the same year, having been allowed to count a semester when he studied logic at the University of Leyden. He proceeded M.A. in 1617.

#4265

Edward Wigglesworth

Edward Wigglesworth

1732 - 1794 (62 years)

Edward Wigglesworth , the son of Edward Michael Wigglesworth , occupied the Hollis Chair of divinity at the Harvard Divinity School from 1765 to 1792. His father had been the first to hold that position.

#4266

Robert Clavering

Robert Clavering

1676 - 1747 (71 years)

Robert Clavering was an English bishop and Hebraist. Life He graduated B.A. from the University of Edinburgh, and then went to Lincoln College, Oxford. He was Fellow and tutor of University College, in 1701. In 1714 he was rector of Bocking, Essex. In 1715 he became Regius Professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford.

#4267

Alfonso Muzzarelli

1749 - 1813 (64 years)

Alfonso Muzzarelli was an Italian Jesuit theologian and scholar. Life He entered the Jesuit novitiate on 20 October 1768, and taught grammar at Bologna and Imola. After the suppression of the order in 1773 he received a benefice at Ferrara and, somewhat later, was made director of the Collegio dei Nobili at Parma.

#4268

Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsa'i

1435 - 1505 (70 years)

Mohammed bin Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Shaybani Al-Bakri Al-Ahsa’i was an influential Shia Muslim scholar who adhered to the Ja'fari school of Islamic jurisprudence. He was born in the village of Taymiyyah in Eastern Arabia during the reign of the first Jabrid Emir, and was raised in prosperity by his father Zain al-Din Ali and grandfather Ibrahim, both Shi’ite scholars. Ibn Abi Jumhur studied first with them before traveling on to Najaf in what is now Iraq to study with Sharaf al-Din Hassan bin Abdulkarim Fattal, who gave him permission to transmit hadith. In 1472, the young postulant went on Hajj and met Ali bin Hilal al-Jazaery in Jabal Amel, giving the latter the same permission.

#4269

Thomas Rennell

1787 - 1824 (37 years)

Thomas Rennell was an English theologian and author. Life The only son of Thomas Rennell, Dean of Winchester Cathedral, he was born at Winchester in 1787. Like his father, he was educated at Eton, where he had a brilliant reputation as a scholar. He won one of Dr. Claudius Buchanan's prizes for a Greek Sapphic ode on the propagation of the gospel in India, and a prize for Latin verses on 'Pallentes Morbi' . He also conducted, in conjunction with three of his contemporaries, a periodical called the Miniature, a successor of the 'Microcosm'. In 1806 he was elected from Eton to King's College, Cambridge.

#4270

John Wemyss

1579 - 1636 (57 years)

John Wemyss , also spelled Weemes or Weemse, was a Church of Scotland minister, Hebrew scholar and exegete. Life John Wemyss was born at Lathocker in eastern Fife, and educated at the University of St Andrews. In 1608, he was appointed minister of Hutton in Berwickshire, and in 1613 he was translated to Duns. For several years Wemyss acted as a representative of Presbyterian ministers in altercations with champions of episcopacy, for example at the Falkland Conference and the Perth Assembly of 1618 which issued the Five Articles. After appearing before the Court of High Commission in 1620 for...

#4271

Simon-Michel Treuvé

1651 - 1730 (79 years)

Simon-Michel Treuvé was a French theologian.

#4272

Jean Porthaise

1520 - 1602 (82 years)

Jean Porthaise was a French theologian. He was a member of the Franciscan League, and was known as an anti-Protestant polemicist, who preached and wrote tracts condemning protestantism.

#4273

Nicolaus Gallus

Nicolaus Gallus

1516 - 1570 (54 years)

Nicolaus Gallus was leader of the Lutheran Reformation in Regensburg. Gallus was born in Köthen. At Wittenberg, where he became a student in 1530 and received the master's degree in 1537, he won the commendation of Melanchthon. In 1543 Luther sent Hieronymus Nopus as preacher to Regensburg at the request of the city council and with him went Gallus, who was ordained by Bugenhagen in April. In 1548 trouble arose in Regensburg over the acceptance of the Interim. Gallus wrote a treatise against it, and had to leave the city; services in the only Evangelical church there were discontinued. For...

#4274

Jonathan P. Cushing

Jonathan P. Cushing

1793 - 1835 (42 years)

Jonathan Peter Cushing was the fifth president of Hampden–Sydney College. Biography Jonathan Cushing born to Peter and Hannah Cushing in Rochester, New Hampshire, in 1793. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1817, and soon after traveled south. While in Richmond he agreed to temporarily take the place of a sick tutor at Hampden–Sydney College. He was soon made a professor, and when President Dr. Moses Hoge died in 1820 Cushing succeeded him in the presidency. With his accession ended the formative period of the institution, which now began its rapid growth into the proper functions and domain of a college.

#4275

William Perry

William Perry was an Anglican priest. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, he was ordained after a period of study at Edinburgh Theological College in 1894. He served curacies in Greenock and Edinburgh. He was Vice-Principal of Edinburgh Theological College from 1897 to 1899. He held incumbencies in Alloa, Stirling and Selkirk; and was Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen from 1910 to 1912. He was Principal of the College of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1912 to 1929; a Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Edinburgh University from 1921 ; Dean of Edinburgh and Rector...

#4276

Johannes Wolf

1521 - 1572 (51 years)

Johannes Wolf was a Swiss Reformed theologian. Life Johannes Wolf was born in Zurich in the year 1521. He became the chaplain of the Zurich hospital in 1544. He received a ministerial position of at the Fraumünster in 1551. In 1565 he became theology professor at the Carolinum in Zürich, also known as the Zurich Academy or Lectorium. He died in 1572.

#4277

Christoph Schütz

1690 - 1750 (60 years)

Christoph Schütz was a pietist writer and a songbook publisher. Schütz's book, Die Güldene Rose. . . von der Wiederbringung Aller Dinge influenced George Rapp and his Harmony Society so much at one point that they used the symbol of the rose and the Bible verse Micah 4:8 as the symbol of their communal society for a couple of years.

#4278

Morgan Dix

1827 - 1908 (81 years)

Morgan Dix was an American Episcopal Church priest, theologian, and religious author. Early life Dix was born on November 1, 1827, in New York City. He was the son of Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter of Congressman John J. Morgan , and Major General John Adams Dix , U.S. Senator from New York , Secretary of the Treasury , Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. His father was notable for arresting six members of the pro-Southern Maryland legislature, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the D...

#4279

Teodoro de Lellis

1428 - 1466 (38 years)

Teodoro de Lellis or Teodoro Lelli was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Treviso and Bishop of Feltre . Biography On 15 February 1462, Teodoro de Lellis was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius II as Bishop of Feltre. On 17 September 1464, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul II as Bishop of Treviso. He served as Bishop of Treviso until his death on 31 March 1466.

#4280

Pope John V

635 - 686 (51 years)

Pope John V was the bishop of Rome from 23 July 685 to his death on 2 August 686. He was the first pope of the Byzantine Papacy consecrated without prior imperial consent, and the first in a line of ten consecutive popes of Eastern origin. His papacy was marked by reconciliation between the city of Rome and the Empire.

#4281

Lorenzo Sears

1838 - 1916 (78 years)

Lorenzo Sears was an American historian and biographer. He was born in Searsville, Massachusetts . He graduated from Yale College in 1861 and from the General Theological Seminary, New York in 1864. He was rector of various Episcopalian parishes in New England until 1885. From 1885 to 1903 he served as professor at the University of Vermont and at Brown University .

#4282

Safi al-Din al-Hindi

1246 - 1315 (69 years)

Safi al-Din al-Hindi al-Urmawi was a prominent Indian Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar and rationalist theologian. Al-Hindi was brought in to debate at Ibn Taymiyya during the second hearing in Damascus in 1306. Taj al-Din al-Subki, in his Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra, reports him to have said: "Oh Ibn Taymiyya, I see that you are only like a sparrow. Whenever I want to grab it, it escapes from one place to another."

#4283

James Cotton

1780 - 1862 (82 years)

James Henry Cotton was a clergyman and educationist who held the position of Dean of Bangor from 1838 until his death and was instrumental in the restoration of Bangor Cathedral. He was the son of George Cotton, Dean of Chester, uncle of George Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta and the first cousin of Sir Stapleton Cotton. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and ordained shortly after graduating. By 1810 he was junior vicar and precentor of Bangor Cathedral, and as such was responsible for the fabric of the building. In the same year he married Mary Anne Majendie, daughter of Henry Majendie, the Bishop of Bangor; they had one son.

#4284

Oliver of Paderborn

1170 - 1227 (57 years)

Oliver of Paderborn, also known as Oliver Scholasticus or Oliver of Cologne , was a German cleric, crusader and chronicler. He was the bishop of Paderborn from 1223 until 1225, when Pope Honorius III made him cardinal-bishop of Sabina. He was the first Paderborn bishop to become a cardinal. Oliver played a significant role in the Crusades as a preacher, participant and chronicler.

#4285

Domingo de Oña

1560 - 1626 (66 years)

Domingo de Oña, O. de M. or Pedro de Oña was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Gaeta and Bishop of Coro . Biography Domingo de Oña was born in Burgos, Spain in 1560 and ordained a priest in the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. On 27 August 1601, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Coro. On 9 December 1601, he was consecrated bishop by Domenico Ginnasi, Archbishop of Manfredonia. On 27 June 1605, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Gaeta. He served as Bishop of Gaeta until his death on 13 October 1626.

#4286

Adolf Büchler

1867 - 1939 (72 years)

Adolf Büchler was an Austro-Hungarian rabbi, historian and theologian. Biography In 1887, he began his theological studies at the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest, and at the same time studied in the Department of Philosophy of the university under Ignác Goldziher and Moritz Kármán. Büchler continued his studies at the Breslau Seminary and in 1890 graduated with a PhD from Leipzig University, his dissertation being Zur Entstehung der Hebräischen Accente, which was later published in the Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften of 1891.

#4287

Georg Michael Telemann

1748 - 1831 (83 years)

Georg Michael Telemann was a German composer and theologian. Telemann was born in Plön, the son of the local pastor Andreas Telemann and his wife Augusta Clara Catharina Capsius. After the death of his father in 1755, he moved to Hamburg, where he was taken in and raised by his then 74-year-old grandfather Georg Philipp Telemann. In Hamburg, he attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums, and from 1770, the Akademisches Gymnasium. On the death of his grandfather in 1767, the 19 year old Georg Michael composed Trauer-Ode auf das betrübte Absterben meines Großvaters Herrn Georg Philipp Telemann, des Hamburgischen Musik-Chor-Direktors.

#4288

John McCaul

1807 - 1887 (80 years)

John McCaul was an Irish-born Canadian educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto from 1848 to 1853. McCaul was born in Dublin, Ireland and earned Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Doctor of Laws degrees from Trinity College, Dublin. He served as a Church of Ireland clergyman before moving to Toronto, Upper Canada in 1839 to become the principal of Upper Canada College. He resigned from the position in 1842 to serve as vice-president of King's College and professor of logic, rhetoric, and classics. In 1849, King's College was renamed as the University of Toronto, and McCaul was elected to succeed John Strachan as president.

#4289

Francis Chenevix Trench

1805 - 1886 (81 years)

Francis Chenevix Trench was an English divine and author. Francis, born in 1805, was the eldest son of Richard Trench , barrister-at-law, by his wife Melesina Trench, Richard Chenevix Trench was his younger brother. Francis entered Harrow School early in 1818, and matriculated from Oriel College, Oxford, on 12 November 1824, graduating B.A. in 1834 and M.A. in 1859. On 4 June 1829 he entered Lincoln's Inn with the intention of studying law, but in 1834 he was ordained deacon and became curate of St. Giles, Reading. In the following year he was ordained priest, and on 13 September 1837 he was appointed perpetual curate of St.

#4290

John Kynton

1455 - 1536 (81 years)

John Kynton was an English 16th-century Franciscan friar, divinity professor, and a vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. In 1500 Kynton graduated as a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford, where he was a Minorite or Friar Minor. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University as part of a committee several times annually during 1503–1513.

#4291

Antoine de Mouchy

1494 - 1574 (80 years)

Antoine de Mouchy was a French theologian and canonist, at Paris. A traditional explanation of the French term mouchard, meaning police spy or informer, is that it derived from his use of intelligence-gathering networks, when working as an inquisitor. This folk-etymology was adopted by Voltaire, following François-Eudes de Mézeray. It has been plausibly contested, on the grounds that the word is found used in the fifteenth century.

#4292

Cyriacus Spangenberg

Cyriacus Spangenberg

1528 - 1604 (76 years)

Cyriacus Spangenberg was a German theologian, Protestant reformer and historian, son of the reformer . Cyriacus was born in Nordhausen. As a student, he was a fellow tenant of Martin Luther in Wittenberg, later became a minister in Eisleben, and in 1559 the General Dean of the Grafschaft Mansfeld.

#4293

Adam of Dryburgh

1140 - 1212 (72 years)

Adam of Dryburgh , in later times also known as Adam the Carthusian, Adam Anglicus and Adam Scotus, was an Anglo-Scottish theologian, writer and Premonstratensian and Carthusian monk. Life He was born around 1140 in the Anglo-Scottish border area to parents whose names and identities are unknown. The details of his earliest education are not known. He is known to have rejected a clerical life in favour of monasticism, entering the Premonstratensian house of Dryburgh Abbey as a young man and becoming a priest there in 1165 at the age of twenty-five.

#4294

Jackson Lawlor

1860 - 1938 (78 years)

Hugh Jackson Lawlor was an Irish Anglican priest and author. He is best remembered for his term as Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Hugh Jackson Lawlor was born in Ballymena, County Antrim. He was educated at Drogheda Grammar School, Rathmines School, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin from where he graduated with BA in mathematics in 1882, getting his MA in 1885. For a while in the 1880s, he was an examiner in mathematics for the Intermediate Board of Education. He was a curate at Christ Church, Kingstown from 1885 to 1893 then an assistant to Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity at Trinity College Dublin.

#4295

William of Woodford

1330 - 1397 (67 years)

William of Woodford or Wydford, OFM was an English cleric and scholastic philosopher, known as an opponent of Wycliffe. Life Although William of Woodford was erroneously identified by the Irish historian Wadding with William of Waterford , there seems to be no doubt that Woodford was an Englishman. He became a Franciscan and was educated at Oxford, where he graduated D.D.

#4296

Al-Bahrani

1238 - 1299 (61 years)

Kamal al-Din Maitham bin Ali bin Maitham al-Bahrani , commonly known as Sheikh Maitham al-Bahrani was a leading thirteenth-century Twelver Eastern Arabian theologian, author and philosopher. Al Bahrani wrote on Twelver doctrine, affirmed free will, the infallibility of prophets and imams, the appointed imamate of `Ali, and the occultation of the Twelfth Imam. Along with Kamal al-Din Ibn Sa’adah al Bahrani, Jamal al-Din ‘Ali ibn Sulayman al-Bahrani, Maytham Al Bahrani was part of a thirteenth-century Bahrain school of theology that emphasised rationalism.

#4297

William Overton

1525 - 1609 (84 years)

William Overton was an English bishop. Life He was born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England. He became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1551, and rector of Balcombe and vicar of Eccleshall in 1553. He was also made a prebendary at Chichester, Winchester, and Salisbury. He became Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in 1580, and remained in post until his death in 1609.

#4298

Sidi Boushaki

1394 - 1453 (59 years)

Sidi Boushaki or Ibrahim Ibn Faïd Ez-Zaouaoui was a maliki theologian born near the town of Thenia, east of Algiers. He was raised in a very spiritual environment with high Islamic values and ethics within the Algerian Islamic reference.

#4299

Adam S. Bennion

Adam S. Bennion

1886 - 1958 (72 years)

Adam Samuel Bennion was a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Born in Taylorsville, Utah Territory, Bennion received degrees from the University of Utah, Columbia University, and the University of California. He also studied at the University of Chicago. He became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 9, 1953, filling a vacancy created by the death of John A. Widtsoe.

#4300

Martin of Alnwick

Martin Alnwick or of Alnwick was an English Franciscan friar and theologian. Biography Little is known of Alnwick's early years. He certainly originated from Northumberland, and a 'Martinus' is recorded in several disputations at Oxford University at the end of the 13th-century, possibly Alnwick. The first definite record of Alnwick was in 1300, where he was one of the Oxford friars who unsuccessfully requested the licence to hear confessions from the bishop of Lincoln, John Dalderby. At Oxford, Alnwick soon received a Doctor of Theology and, in 1304, became the 32nd regent master of the univ...

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