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John Morris
1826 - 1893 (67 years)
John Morris, SJ , was an English Jesuit priest and scholar of Church history. Life Early life Morris was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, then under the British Raj. He was a son of John Carnac Morris, FRS, an official of the East India Company who was also a noted scholar of Telugu, and of his wife, Rosanna Curtis. He was educated partly in India, partly at Harrow School, partly in reading for Cambridge with Dean Alford, the New Testament scholar. Under him a great change passed over Morris's ideas. Giving up the thought of taking the law as his profession, he became enthusiastic for ecclesia...
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Johannes Rhenanus
1528 - 1589 (61 years)
Johannes Rhenanus was a German salinist, theologian, alchemist, printer and author. Life From 1548, Johannes Rhenanus studied theology in Marburg, in 1553 he was ordained by Adam Krafft, the reformer of Hessen. Between 1553 and 1554 he worked as a second pastor in his hometown. At Pentecost in 1555 Landgrave Philipp transferred him to Allendorf in Sooden. Meanwhile, he called himself no longer Rheinlandt but Latinized his name to Johannes Rhenanus. In 1566, he married Catharina Brown , daughter of the rent writer Jost Braun von Melsungen. They had five children. His second marriage was wit...
Go to ProfileMatthew Turner , a Liverpool physician, is considered to be the author or co-author of the 1782 pamphlet, Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever, the first published work of avowed atheism in Britain. Turner was also a pioneer in the use of ether for medical purposes, and wrote a pamphlet on the subject. In a footnote, Turner was the man who introduced Josiah Wedgwood to Thomas Bentley in Liverpool, a friendship which led to the formation of the company that produced the famous pottery.
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John of Schoonhoven
1356 - 1432 (76 years)
John of Schoonhoven was a Flemish theologian and writer. After a philosophical education at the University of Paris he entered the convent of the regular canons at Groenendaal near Brussels , where he met John of Ruysbroeck. In 1386 he became prior and master to the novices. After the accession Groenendaal to the Windesheimer congregation he wrote many sermons, some of which became the most well-known writings at the general chapter. Beside these and other sermons, spiritual writings and letters, he wrote the then celebrated Epistola responsalis super epistolam cancellarii.
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David Stow Adam
1859 - 1925 (66 years)
David Stow Adam was a Scottish minister and professor. David was born near Langside in Glasgow to George Adam and Jane , both schoolteachers. He matriculated to the University of Glasgow in 1874, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1881 and a Bachelor of Divinity in 1884. He also studied at Erlangen University. Between 1881 and 1884, he taught logic and metaphysics at the University of Glasgow, later teaching Hebrew at Free Church Training College between 1885 and 1886.
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Jesper Brochmand
1585 - 1652 (67 years)
Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand was a Danish Lutheran clergyman, theologian and professor who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Zealand from 1638 until his death. Brochmand was a key founder of the dogmatic system that formed the basis for the lutheran orthodoxy in Denmark.
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David Low Dodge
1774 - 1852 (78 years)
David Low Dodge was an American activist and theologian who helped to establish the New York Peace Society and was a founder of the New York Bible Society and the New York Tract Society. According to historian Dale R. Steiner, he wrote "some of the earliest and most effective antiwar literature in the United States."
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Rudolf Seydel
1835 - 1892 (57 years)
Rudolf Seydel was a German philosopher and theologian born in Dresden. In 1860 he received his habilitation at the University of Leipzig, where in 1867 he became an associate professor of philosophy. He was a disciple of Christian Hermann Weisse , and is remembered for his studies involving parallels between Buddhism and Christianity. Seydel died in Leipzig on December 8, 1892.
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David Tappan
1752 - 1803 (51 years)
David Tappan was an American theologian. He occupied the Hollis Chair at Harvard Divinity School until his death in 1803. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1796. He graduated from Harvard University in 1771.
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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.
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Hermann Thyraeus
1532 - 1591 (59 years)
Hermann Thyräus was a German Jesuit theologian and preacher. Life He studied first at Cologne, and then, after 1522, at the Collegium Germanicum at Rome. On 26 May 1556, he was received into the Society of Jesus by Ignatius Loyola.
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Giovanni Bellarini
1552 - 1630 (78 years)
Giovanni Bellarini was an Italian Roman Catholic theologian who wrote influential commentaries on the Council of Trent. He was a Barnabite. Life He was born at Castelnuovo, Italy, in 1552, and was Visitor and twice Assistant General of his order. He taught theology at Padua and Rome, and was esteemed particularly by Pope Gregory XV. He died at Milan, 27 August 1630.
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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....
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Kaspar Eberhard
1523 - 1575 (52 years)
Kaspar Eberhard was a German Lutheran theologian and teacher. He was born at Schneeberg, and died at Wittenberg. Life Bibliography Walter Friedensburg: Geschichte der Universität Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle 1917,Irene Dingel, Günther Wartenberg: Die Theologische Fakultät Wittenberg 1502 bis 1602, Leipzig 2002, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte Jahrgang 29, Leipzig 1932, S. 97-132Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte Jahrgang 30, Leipzig 1933, S. 43Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte Jahrgang 31, Leipzig 1934, S. 57Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte Jahrgang 34, Leipzig 1937, S. 167-169Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: Allgemeines Gelehrten–Lexikon.
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Konrad Hubert
1507 - 1577 (70 years)
Konrad Hubert, also Konrad Huber, Konrad Huober, or Konrad Humbert , was a German Reformed theologian, hymn writer and reformer. He was for 18 years the assistant of Martin Bucer at St. Thomas, Strasbourg.
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Hieronim Malecki
1527 - 1583 (56 years)
Hieronim Malecki Hieronim Malecki was the son of Johannes Maletius , who was a printer of Polish language Lutheran religious literature in Königsberg in Ducal Prussia, then a fief of Kingdom of Poland. Hieronim studied in Kraków at the Jagiellonian University and then at the University of Königsberg.
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James Wilson
1836 - 1931 (95 years)
James Maurice Wilson was a British priest in the Church of England as well as a theologian, teacher and astronomer. Early life Wilson and his twin brother, Edward Pears Wilson, attended King William's College on the Isle of Man from August 1848 to midsummer 1853 . Their father Edward, vicar of Nocton in Lincolnshire, had earlier been headmaster there. According to his autobiography, Wilson had a rather unhappy time at King William's College. He later studied at Sedbergh School.
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Lucas Maius
1522 - 1598 (76 years)
Lucas Maius was a German Protestant pastor who converted from Lutheranism to Calvinism, and playwright during the Protestant Reformation. Life Lucas Maius was born in Römhild in 1522, to mill owner Michael May and his wife, Martha Dörrer. In his early years, he moved with his parents to Hildburghausen, as his father took part in the German Peasants' War. There, he attended school in the winters, helping with the farmwork in the summer months. He learned a simple job as tailor. In 1548, he completed his studies at the University of Wittenberg, where he had attended lectures by Philipp Melanchthon.
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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.
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John Sullivan
1861 - 1933 (72 years)
John Sullivan was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Jesuits. Sullivan was known for his life of deep spiritual reflection and personal sacrifice; he is recognised for his dedicated work with the poor and spent much of his time walking and riding his bike to visit those who were troubled or ill in the villages around Clongowes Wood College, where he taught from 1907 until his death.
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Robert Parker
1564 - 1614 (50 years)
Robert Parker was an English Puritan clergyman and scholar. He became minister of a separatist congregation in Holland where he died while in exile for his heterodoxy. The Revd. Cotton Mather wrote of Parker as "one of the greatest scholars in the English Nation, and in some sort the father of all Nonconformists of our day."
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Andrew Preston Peabody
1811 - 1893 (82 years)
Andrew Preston Peabody was an American clergyman and author. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Peabody was descended from Lieut. Francis Peabody of St. Albans, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1635. He learned to read before he was three years old, entered Harvard College at the age of twelve, and graduated in 1826, the youngest graduate of Harvard with the single exception of Paul Dudley .
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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 .
Go to ProfileJohn 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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John Martin Creed
1889 - 1940 (51 years)
John Martin Creed, FBA was an English theologian and clergyman. The son of a vicar, he was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School in Leicester and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge . He was ordained a priest and elected a fellow at Gonville and Caius in 1914, where he was chaplain from 1915 to 1917. After being a Chaplain to the Forces , he was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, from 1919 until he died. He was also Ely Professor of Divinity from 1926 until his death. He gave the Hulsean Lectures in 1936, and in 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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Şihabetdin Märcani
1818 - 1889 (71 years)
Şihabetdin Märcani was a Tatar Hanafi Maturidi theologian and historian. He studied in madrassas of Tashkichu , Bukhara and Samarkand. Beginning in 1850 he served as the imam of the First Cathedral Mosque. Later, in 1867, he became a muhtasib of Kazan. At the same time, in 1876-1884 he lectured on religion in the Tatar Teachers' School. Märcani became the first Muslim member of The Society for Archaeology, History and Ethnography at Kazan State University. In his papers he illustrated his ideas about the renovation and the perfection of the Tatar educational system. As a historian, he was the...
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Thomas Joseph Shahan
1857 - 1932 (75 years)
Thomas Joseph Shahan was an American Catholic theologian and educator, born at Manchester, New Hampshire, educated at Collège de Montréal , at the Pontifical North American College, and at the Propaganda Fide in Rome.
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Fernão de Oliveira
1507 - 1581 (74 years)
Fernão de Oliveira , sometimes named Fernando de Oliveira or Fernando Oliveira, was a Portuguese grammarian, Dominican friar, historian, cartographer, naval pilot and theorist on naval warfare and shipbuilding. An adventurous humanist and renaissance man, he studied and published the first grammar of the Portuguese language, the Grammatica da lingoagem portuguesa, in 1536. He was an early critic of slavery and the slave trade.
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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.
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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.
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John Evans
1767 - 1827 (60 years)
John Evans was a Welsh Baptist minister. Life He was born at Usk in Monmouthshire, 2 October 1767. After schooling in Bristol he became a student in November 1783 in the Baptist academy there, where his relative Dr. Caleb Evans was theological tutor. During part of the time Robert Hall was his classical tutor. In 1787 he matriculated at King's College, Aberdeen, and went in 1790 to the University of Edinburgh. Having taken the degree of M.A. he returned in June 1791 to England.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Péter Bod
1712 - 1769 (57 years)
Péter Bod or Peter Bod was a Hungarian theologian and historian. Biography Bod was born on 22 February 1712 in Felső-Csernáton, in Transylvania. He studied at Nagy-Enyed, where he also was appointed librarian and professor of Hebrew. In 1740 he went to Leyden to complete his theological studies. After his return, in 1743, he was appointed chaplain to the countess Teleki, and in 1749 he was called to Magyar-Igen as pastor of the Reformed Church, and died there in 1768.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Go to ProfileWilliam 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...
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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.
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Henry Martyn Clark
1857 - 1916 (59 years)
Henry Martyn-Clark was an Afghan-born adopted British medical missionary stationed in Amritsar in the late 19th century. Biography Clark was born to Afghan parents, and was adopted after his mother's death by Elizabeth and Rev. Robert Clark in 1859. It is thought that he was named Henry Martyn after the Anglican missionary to Persia and India. Clark was educated at the University of Edinburgh and received his MD in 1892. In 1881 he was accepted by the Church Missionary Society to start the Amritsar Medical Mission as a Medical Missionary. He left for Amritsar to join his father on 4 February 1882.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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