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Arthur McGill
1926 - 1980 (54 years)
Arthur Chute McGill was a Canadian-born American theologian and philosopher. Biography Born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, on August 7, 1926, McGill moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, later that year where he attended Rivers Country Day School, still extant today. He is mentioned in The Lustre of Our Country The American Experience of Religious Freedom, by prominent Senior Circuit Judge John T. Noonan Jr. The two men prayed and sung Protestant hymns together at the school, and Noonan refers to him as a boyhood rival: "... my River's classmate, Arthur Chute McGill, who later became a professor at Harvard Divinity School.
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Walter Matthews
1881 - 1973 (92 years)
Walter Robert Matthews was an Anglican priest, theologian, and philosopher. Early life and education Born on 22 September 1881 in Camberwell, London, to parents Philip Walter Matthews, a banker, and Sophia Alice Self, he was educated at Wilson's School and trained for the priesthood at King's College London.
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Denis Bérardier
1735 - 1794 (59 years)
Denis Bérardier was a French priest and theologian. He was born at Quimper, in Brittany 26 March 1735 and died at Paris 1 May 1794. He was one of the deputies from the Paris clergy to the Estates-General of 1789.
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Alfonso de Castro
1494 - 1558 (64 years)
Alfonso de Castro, O.F.M., known also as Alphonsus à Castro, was a Franciscan theologian and jurist. He belongs to the group of theologian-jurists known as the School of Salamanca , though he denied belonging to a specific school of thought and condemned many theologians who did. He was most well-known in the sixteenth century for his work Adversus omnes haereses, libri XIV, an encyclopedic treatise on ancient and modern heresies.
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Bernard Jungmann
1833 - 1895 (62 years)
Bernard Jungmann was a German Catholic dogmatic theologian and ecclesiastical historian. Biography He was born at Münster in Westphalia on 1 March 1833; died at Leuven , 12 January 1895. He belonged to an intensely Catholic family of Westphalia; like him, two of his brothers entered the Catholic clergy, one joining the Society of Jesus and the other becoming a missionary in the United States. After finishing his studies with brilliant success at the public schools of his native town, he entered the German College at Rome through the mediation of the bishop's secretary, afterwards Cardinal Melchers, and made his philosophical and theological studies in the Gregorian College.
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Samuel Eyles Pierce
1746 - 1829 (83 years)
The Rev. Samuel Eyles Pierce was an English preacher, theologian, and Calvinist divine. A Dissenter from the Honiton area, Pierce was an evangelical church minister aligned with Calvinist Baptist theology. He wrote more than fifty books and many sermons.
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Rodrigo de Arriaga
1592 - 1667 (75 years)
Rodrigo de Arriaga was a Spanish philosopher, theologian and Jesuit. He is known as one of the foremost Spanish Jesuits of his day and as a leading representative of post-Suárezian baroque Jesuit nominalism. Accordig to Richard Popkin, Arriaga was “the last of the great Spanish Scholastics”.
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Robert Charles
1855 - 1931 (76 years)
Robert Henry Charles, was an Irish Anglican theologian, biblical scholar, professor, and translator from Northern Ireland. He is known particularly for his English translations of numerous apocryphal and pseudepigraphal Ancient Hebrew writings, including the Book of Jubilees , the Apocalypse of Baruch , the Ascension of Isaiah , the Book of Enoch , and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs , which have been widely used. He wrote the articles in the eleventh edition of Encyclopædia Britannica attributed to the initials "R. H. C."
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Alessandro Politi
1679 - 1752 (73 years)
Alessandro Politi , was an Italian philologist. Biography Alessandro Politi was born July 10, 1679, at Florence. After studying under the Jesuits, he entered at the age of fifteen the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, and was conspicuous among its members by his rare erudition. He was called upon to teach rhetoric and peripatetic philosophy at Florence in 1700. Barring a period of about three years, during which he was a professor of theology at Genoa , he spent the greatest part of his life in his native city, availing himself of the manifold resources he could find there to improve his knowledge of Greek literature, his favorite study.
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Peder Palladius
1503 - 1560 (57 years)
Peder Palladius was a Danish theologian, Protestant reformer, and bishop of Zealand. As the first protestant bishop in Denmark, he oversaw the conversion of ecclesiastic affairs. He helped create the church ordinance which founded the Church of Denmark, produced a Danish translation of the Bible, and removed Catholic images and rituals from his diocese.
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John Brown Paton
1830 - 1911 (81 years)
John Brown Paton was a Scottish Congregationalist minister, college head and author. Early life Born 17 December 1830 at Galston, East Ayrshire, Paton was the son of Alexander Paton by his wife Mary, daughter of Andrew Brown of Newmilns, both of the United Secession Church; he claimed descent from Covenanters, on his father's side from John Paton , on his mother's from John Brown . His father ultimately joined the Congregationalists.
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Paul Laurentius
1554 - 1624 (70 years)
Paul Laurentius , Lutheran divine, was at Oberwiera, where his father, of the same names, was pastor. From a school at Zwickau he entered the University of Leipzig, graduating in 1577. In 1578 he became rector of the Martin school at Halberstadt; in 1583 he was appointed towns preacher at Plauen, and in 1586 superintendent at Oelsnitz. On October 20, 1595, he took his doctorate in theology at Jena. His thesis on the Symboluin Atzanasii , gaining him similar honours at Wittenberg and Leipzig. He was promoted to be pastor and superintendent at Dresden, and transferred to the superintendence at Meissen, where he died on February 24, 1624.
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Johannes Bilberg
1646 - 1717 (71 years)
Johannes Bilberg was a Swedish theologian, professor and bishop. As a professor he was involved in the controversy over Cartesianism. He was the son of school principal and vicar Jonas Amberni and his wife Ingrid Denckert. At the age of thirteen Bilberg started studying at Uppsala University. After he graduated with Bachelor of Arts, he took employment as a tutor for a young baron named Ulf Bonde on a trip around the continent of Europe when they visited royal courts and universities. When he returned home in 1677 he was named professor of mathematics at Uppsala University.
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Andrea Spagni
1716 - 1788 (72 years)
Andrea Spagni was an Italian Jesuit theologian, educator, and author. Spagni was born at Florence. He entered the Society of Jesus on 22 October 1731, and was employed chiefly in teaching philosophy and theology, though for a time he lectured in mathematics at the Roman College, and assisted Father Asclepi in his astronomical observations. He died in Rome.
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Claude D'Espence
1511 - 1571 (60 years)
Claude D'Espence was a French theologian and diplomat, born in 1511 at Châlons-sur-Marne; died 5 Oct., 1571, at Paris. He entered the Collège de Navarre in 1536, and later became the rector of the Sorbonne before he got his doctorate. He was involved with the Council of Trent and argued against the Protestant apologist Theodore Beza about the value of tradition.
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Jure Radić
1920 - 1990 (70 years)
Jure Radić was Croatian Catholic priest and scientist. He was born in Baška Voda. He taught as a professor of liturgy at the Faculty of Theology in Makarska. He explored the flora of Biokovo and Makarska littoral, and benthic fauna of Makarska underwater. In 1963 he founded the Malacological museum in Makarska, and in 1979 the Institute "Mountains and Sea", in which he collaborated with Edita Marija Šolić. He also founded conference proceedings series Acta Biocovica . He co-founded and edited the first Croatian journal in liturgical-pastoral theology Služba Božja in 1960.
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Gabriel Skagestad
1879 - 1952 (73 years)
Gabriel Skagestad was a Norwegian theologian and priest. He served as a bishop of the Diocese of Stavanger from 1940 until 1949. Skagestad was a key figure in the resistance movement of the church during the German occupation of Norway.
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Johann Friedrich Wucherer
1803 - 1881 (78 years)
Johann Friedrich Wucherer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, author, and co-founder of the Society of Inner Missions with Wilhelm Löhe, based in Neuendettelsau. Early life and education Wucherer was born in Nördlingen and went on to study at the University of Erlangen. After completing his studies he worked for some time as an assistant minister in Nördlingen before he was appointed as the hospital-preacher in Nördlingen in 1832.
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James Tyrie
1543 - 1597 (54 years)
James Tyrie was a Scottish Jesuit theologian. Life Educated first at St. Andrews, he joined Edmund Hay at the time of de Gouda's mission in 1562. In his company he then went to Rome, was there admitted into the Society of Jesus, and was eventually sent to Clermont College, Paris, in June, 1567, where Hay had become rector; and remained there in various posts, e.g. professor, head of the Scottish Jesuit Mission , till 1590.
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John Wood Oman
1860 - 1939 (79 years)
John Wood Oman, FBA was a Scottish theologian and Presbyterian minister. Biography The son of farmer, Oman was born on 23 July 1860 and grew up on Orkney. He studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh , and then studied at the United Presbyterian Church's theological college in Edinburgh. In 1904 Oman gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He was minister of Clayport Street Church in Alnwick . From 1907 to 1922, he was Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster College, Cambridge. He then served as the college's principal from 1922 until his retirement in 1...
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David Chytraeus
1531 - 1600 (69 years)
David Chytraeus or Chyträus was a German Lutheran theologian, reformer and historian. He was a disciple of Melancthon. He was born at Ingelfingen. His real surname was Kochhafe, which in Classical Greek is χύτρα, from where he derived the Latinized pseudonym "Chyträus".
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Thomas Sampson
1517 - 1589 (72 years)
Thomas Sampson was an English Puritan theologian. A Marian exile, he was one of the Geneva Bible translators. On his return to England, he had trouble with conformity to the Anglican practices. With Laurence Humphrey, he played a leading part in the vestments controversy, a division along religious party lines in the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
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Samuel Davidson
1807 - 1898 (91 years)
Samuel Davidson was an Irish biblical scholar. Life He was born at Kellswater, County Antrim, the son of Abraham Davidson, into a Scots-Irish presbyterian. He was educated at the village school, under James Darragh, and then in Ballymena till 1824; and then became a student at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, destined for the presbyterian ministry. His college course included periods in Londonderry and Liverpool, and was completed in 1832.
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Al-Juwayni
1028 - 1085 (57 years)
Dhia' ul-Dīn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī al-Shafi'ī was a Persian Sunni scholar famous for being the foremost leading jurisconsult, legal theoretician and Islamic theologian of his time. His name is commonly abbreviated as al-Juwayni; he is also commonly referred to as Imam al-Haramayn meaning "leading master of the two holy cities", that is, Mecca and Medina. He acquired the status of a mujtahid in the field of fiqh and usul al-fiqh. Highly celebrated as one of the most important and influential thinkers in the Shafi'i school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence, he was considered as the virtual second founder of the Shafi'i school, after its first founder Imam al-Shafi'i.
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Theodor Weber
1836 - 1906 (70 years)
Theodor Hubert Weber was a German theologian and professor of philosophy. Biography Weber was born in Zülpich. He was the second bishop of the German Old Catholic Church, and one of the more important followers of Anton Günther's philosophy.
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Karl Eduard von Napiersky
1793 - 1864 (71 years)
Karl Eduard von Napiersky was a Latvian clergyman and historian. He studied theology at the University of Dorpat, and from 1814 onward, served as a pastor in the municipality of Neu-Pebalg. From 1829 to 1849 he was director of government schools and gymnasiums in Riga. In 1851 he became a member of the newly established censorship committee in Riga.
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Adolphe Perraud
1828 - 1906 (78 years)
Adolphe Louis Albert Perraud was a French Cardinal and academician. Biography Perraud was born in Lyon to Leopold Perraud and Aglae Delametherie. A brilliant student at the lycées Henri IV and St Louis, he entered the École Normale, where he was strongly influenced by Joseph Gratry. In 1850 he secured the fellowship of history and for two years he taught at the lycée of Angers. In 1852 he abandoned teaching to become a priest. He returned to Paris where he joined the Oratory, which was then being reorganized by Gratry and Abbé Pététot, curé of St Roch.
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Gardiner Spring
1785 - 1873 (88 years)
Gardiner Spring was an American minister and author. Life Spring was born on February 24, 1785, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the oldest child of the politically well-connected Reverend Samuel Spring. His parents directed him towards the ministry, which he initially resisted.
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Lazar Baranovych
1616 - 1693 (77 years)
Lazar Baranovych or Baranovich was a Ruthenian Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and then of the Tsardom of Russia. Early life Ecclesiastical, political, and literary figure, professor and rector of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
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Jakob Haartman
1717 - 1788 (71 years)
Jakob Haartman was the Bishop of Turku in Finland from 1776 till his death in 1788. Biography Haartman was born on 8 March 1717 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Finnish parents Johan Jakobsson Haartman, a priest, and Maria Kristoffersdotter Sundenius. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Turku in 1730 and from Uppsala University in 1733. He earned his master's degree from the Royal Academy of Turku in 1741. In 1742 he became an associate professor of Philosophy and a deputy librarian in 1750, a deputy secretary in 1755 and a professor of Philosophy and History in 1756. He was ordained a pri...
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John Anderson
1805 - 1855 (50 years)
John Anderson was a Scottish missionary and the founder of the mission of the Free Church of Scotland at Madras, India. Early life and education John Anderson was born at Craig Farm, Kirkpatrick Durham, in Galloway, on 23 May 1805. He was the eldest son in a family of nine, his father being blind. He received the rudiments of his education in the parish schools, and in his twenty-second year entered the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained prizes in Latin and in moral philosophy, distinguishing himself by his facility in Latin composition, and studying theology and church history under Thomas Chalmers and David Welch.
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Robert Owen
1820 - 1902 (82 years)
Robert Owen was a Welsh theologian and antiquarian. Life Owen was born in Dolgellau, Merionethshire, on 13 May 1820. After being educated at Ruthin School, Owen attended Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1838. He obtained a third-class Bachelor of Arts degree in Literae Humaniores in 1842, with further degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity . He was a Fellow of Jesus College from 1845 until 1864, when an allegation of immorality forced his resignation.
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William of Ware
1260 - 1305 (45 years)
William of Ware was a Franciscan friar and theologian, born at Ware in Hertfordshire. He almost certainly studied at Oxford University and lectured on the Sentences of Peter Lombard there, but he is not listed among the Oxford masters. There is some evidence, but no certainty, that he also taught at the University of Paris, perhaps lecturing there too on the Sentences. He was known as the Doctor Fundatus and less commonly the Doctor Praeclarus .
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António Sebastião Valente
1846 - 1908 (62 years)
Dom Sebastião António Valente was a Catholic archbishop and Portuguese colonial administrator, the first Patriarch of the East Indies. Biography Born in El Puerto de Santa María, province of Cadiz , he was the son of Maria João Valente and Bridget Medeiros, a native of Mértola, Portugal. He attended primary school in Beja, graduated in Coimbra and taught in the Seminaries of Viseu and Santarém. He was ordained a deacon on 23 September 1871, and on 25 May 1872 ordained a priest.
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Otto von Gerlach
1801 - 1849 (48 years)
Karl Friedrich Otto von Gerlach was a German theologian and pastor from Berlin. He was the youngest of five children of Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach , first Lord Mayor of Berlin, and Agnes von Raumer , and brother of Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach and Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach .
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Augustine Reding
1625 - 1692 (67 years)
Augustine Reding was a Swiss Benedictine, the Prince-Abbot of Einsiedeln, and theological writer. Life After completing the classics at the Benedictine College of Einsiedeln, Reding joined the Order of St. Benedict, December 26, 1641. He went on to teach philosophy at the early age of twenty-four. Reding was ordained priest and appointed master of novices in 1649, and obtained the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1654. He was professor of theology at the Benedictine University of Salzburg from 1648 to 1654. He became dean at Einsiedeln...
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Michael Adler
1868 - 1944 (76 years)
Michael Adler DSO, SCF was an English Orthodox rabbi, an Anglo-Jewish historian and author who was the first Jewish military chaplain to the British Army to serve in time of war, serving with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front during the First World War from 1915 to 1918. He was responsible for the Magen David being carved on the headstones of Jewish soldiers who died in wartime instead of the traditional Cross.
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Abu Hashim al-Jubba'i
888 - 933 (45 years)
Abū Hāshīm al-Jubbā'ī was a mu'tazili theologian. He was born in 888 in Basra, and died in 933 in Baghdad. He was the son of Abū 'Alī Muḥammad al-Jubbā'ī. Biography His main teacher in theology was his own father. After the latter's death in 915, he became the leader of the Mutazilite school of Basra. Around 926, he had to leave for Baghdad because of his poverty.
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Francisco de Araujo
1580 - 1664 (84 years)
Francisco de Araujo was a Spanish Catholic theologian. He was born at Verin, Galicia, Spain. In 1601, he entered the Dominican Order at Salamanca. He taught theology in the convent of St. Paul at Burgos, and in the latter year was made assistant to Peter of Herrera, the principal professor of theology at Salamanca. Six years later he succeeded to the chair, and held it until 1648, when he was appointed Bishop of Segovia. In 1656 he resigned his Episcopal see, and retired to the convent of his order at Madrid, where he died.
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Ben-Zion Bokser
1907 - 1984 (77 years)
Ben-Zion Bokser was a major Conservative rabbi in the United States. Biography Bokser was born in Liuboml, then a part of Poland, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 13 in 1920. He attended City College of New York and Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Theological Seminary, followed by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Columbia University . He taught for many years as an adjunct professor of political science, Queens College, City University of New York.
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Micurà de Rü
1789 - 1847 (58 years)
Micurà de Rü, born Nikolaus Bacher , was an Austrian Ladin-speaking Catholic presbyter and linguist best known for his writings on the Ladin language. Biography He was born as Nikolaus Bacher in vila Rü in San Ćiascian, now part of Badia, South Tyrol.
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Wilhelm Lamormaini
1571 - 1648 (77 years)
Wilhelm Germain Lamormaini was a Jesuit theologian, and an influential figure as confessor of the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II during the Thirty Years' War. Life Lamormaini was born near Dochamps in the Duchy of Luxembourg , since 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands. His father, Everard Germain, was a farmer at the hamlet of Lamormenil, hence the name. Lamormaini studied first at the Jesuit gymnasium of Trier, and thence went to Prague, where he received his doctor's degree, and in 1590 entered the Jesuit Order in Brno. Ordained priest at Bratislava in 1596 and afterwards working as a tea...
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Alexander Nowell
1507 - 1602 (95 years)
Alexander Nowell was an Anglican priest and theologian. He served as Dean of St Paul's during much of Elizabeth I's reign, and is now remembered for his catechisms, written in Latin. Early life He was the eldest son of John Nowell of Read Hall, Read, Lancashire, by his second wife Elizabeth Kay of Rochdale, and was the brother of Laurence Nowell. His sister Beatrice was the mother of John Hammond; Robert Nowell, attorney of the court of wards, was his other brother.
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Philippus Jacobus Hoedemaker
1839 - 1910 (71 years)
Philippus Jacobus Hoedemaker was a Dutch minister and professor. He was a leading figure in the tumultuous late-19th to early-20th century Dutch politico-ecclesiastical landscape. Early life Born in 1839 into a Separated Reformed church family – although his subsequent career would be conducted within the "Hervormd" national church – Hoedemaker spent his teen and early-college-age years in the United States, where his family moved in 1852. He studied theology for three years at the Congregationalist College in Chicago , during which time he supported himself by preaching, for which, it was a...
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Henry Rogers
1806 - 1877 (71 years)
Henry Rogers was an English nonconformist minister and man of letters, known as a Christian apologist. Life He was third son of Thomas Rogers, a surgeon of St Albans, where he was born on 18 October 1806. He was educated at private schools and by his father, of congregationalist views. In his seventeenth year he was apprenticed to a surgeon at Milton-next-Sittingbourne, Kent; reading John Howe's The Redeemer's Tears wept over Lost Souls diverted his attention from surgery to theology. After study at Highbury College, Middlesex, he entered the congregationalist ministry in June 1829.
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Mila Tupper Maynard
1864 - 1926 (62 years)
Mila Tupper Maynard was an American Unitarian minister, writer, social reformer and suffragist. She is thought to have been the first female minister in Nevada. Early years Born Mila Frances Tupper on January 26, 1864, in Brighton, Iowa, she was the daughter of Allen Tupper and Ellen Smith Tupper. Tupper Maynard was greatly influenced by her sister, Eliza Frances Tupper, who was 20 years older and active in establishing churches throughout the Midwestern United States. Tupper Maynard accompanied her sister on these projects and became actively involved in the Unitarian church.
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Joseph Pletz
1788 - 1840 (52 years)
Joseph Pletz was an Austrian doctor of theology, imperial chaplain, and abbot of the monastery of the Holy Virgin of Pagrany, Hungary; imperial counselor, consistorial counselor, deacon-emeritus of the metropolitan chapter of St. Stephen at Vienna; director of the theological studies in the Austrian empire, referent of the same assistant of the imperial commission of studies, director and president of the theological faculty; and, in 1835, ex-rector magnificus of the University of Vienna, member of the high schools of Vienna, Pesth, and Padua, etc.
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Georg Joachim Mark
1726 - 1774 (48 years)
Georg Joachim Mark or Georg Joachim Märk was a German theologian. He was born at Schwerin March 1, 1726; was educated at the University of Kiel; in 1745 entered the ministry; and in 1747 was appointed a member of the philosophical faculty of his alma mater. In 1752 he accepted a call as librarian to the prince Louis of Mecklenburg- Schwerin; in 1758, as professor ordinary of divinity to the University of Kiel; in 1766 he was honored with the degree of doctor of divinity. He died on 5 March 1774.
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Laurence Tomson
1539 - 1608 (69 years)
Laurence Tomson was an English politician, author, and translator. He acted as the personal secretary of Sir Francis Walsingham, the secretary of state to Elizabeth I of England. Tomson revised both the text and the annotations of the New Testament of the Geneva Bible. His revised edition appeared in 1576. Tomson was a Calvinist, and his annotations reflect that system of theology.
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Hervaeus Natalis
1260 - 1323 (63 years)
Hervaeus Natalis was a Dominican theologian, the 14th Master of the Dominicans, and the author of a number of works on philosophy and theology. His many writings include the Summa Totius Logicae, an opusculum once attributed to Thomas Aquinas.
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