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List of the most influential people in Theology,
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D. Elton Trueblood
1900 - 1994 (94 years)
David Elton Trueblood , who was usually known as "Elton Trueblood" or "D. Elton Trueblood", was a noted 20th-century American Quaker author and theologian, former chaplain both to Harvard and Stanford universities.
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Stephan Agricola
1491 - 1547 (56 years)
Stephan Agricola was a Lutheran church reformer. Born in Abensberg, at a young age he joined the Augustinian order. As a monk, he studied Augustine deeply. As a student, he went to the universities in Bologna and Venice, where in 1519 he became a Doctor of Theology. He began to preach on whole books of the Bible in 1520. He was led to Lutheranism through his study of Augustine's works on the scriptures. He was accused of Lutheranism as a heresy. Although he claimed his independence of Luther, he was arrested and imprisoned in Mühldorf on November 17, 1522. In 1523 he escaped and came to Augsb...
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Theodor Kliefoth
1810 - 1895 (85 years)
Theodor Friedrich Dethlof Kliefoth was a German Neo-Lutheran. He was born in Körchow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin on 18 January 1810 and he died in Schwerin on 26 January 1895. Life He was educated at the gymnasium of Schwerin, and at the Universities of Berlin and Rostock. In 1833 he was appointed instructor of Duke William of Mecklenburg, and in 1837 accompanied Grand Duke Frederick Francis as tutor to Dresden. He became pastor at Ludwigslust in 1840, and superintendent of Schwerin in 1844. Since 1835 he had been the leading spirit in the ecclesiastical and theological affairs of his state. With th...
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Ibrahim al-Nazzam
760 - 835 (75 years)
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn Sayyār Ibn Hāni‘ an-Naẓẓām was an Arab Mu'tazilite theologian and poet. He was a nephew of the Mu'tazilite theologian Abu al-Hudhayl al-'Allaf, and al-Jahiz was one of his students. Al-Naẓẓām served at the courts of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mamun. His theological doctrines and works are lost except for a few fragments.
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Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr.
1790 - 1861 (71 years)
Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr. was an American linguist and theologian, who served as professor of sacred literature at Yale University. He is chiefly remembered today for his involvement in the Amistad case and as the father of theoretical physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs.
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Kathleen Bliss
1908 - 1989 (81 years)
Kathleen Mary Amelia Bliss was an English theologian, missionary and official of the World Council of Churches . Early life Bliss was born in Fulham. She attended Girton College, Cambridge, graduating in theology and history . While at university, she participated in the Student Volunteer Movement.
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Willem Hessels van Est
1542 - 1613 (71 years)
Willem Hessels van Est, Latinized as Estius , was a Dutch Catholic commentator on the Pauline epistles. Biography He was born at Gorcum, County of Holland. He received his early education at home, after which he went to Utrecht, where he studied classics and thence proceeded to Leuven, where he spent about twenty years in the study of philosophy, theology and Holy Scripture. During the last ten years there he was professor of philosophy in one of the colleges. In 1580 he received the degree of Doctor of Theology.
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Augusta Emma Stetson
1842 - 1928 (86 years)
Augusta Emma Stetson was an American religious leader. Known for her impressive oratory skills and magnetic personality, she attracted a large following in New York City. However, her increasingly radical theories, conflicts with other church members including a well-known rivalry with Laura Lathrop, and attempts to supplant Mary Baker Eddy as the leader of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, led to her eventually being excommunicated from the church on charges of insubordination and of false teaching. Afterwards she began preaching and publishing various works on her theories which she n...
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Karl Johann Greith
1807 - 1882 (75 years)
Karl Johann Greith was a Swiss Catholic bishop and church historian. Life He received his early education at St. Gall, then went to the lyceum at Lucerne and the University of Munich; at the university he studied theology, philosophy, and history, and met Joseph Görres. In 1829 he went to Paris to perfect himself in library work; while there he decided to enter the priesthood and completed his theological studies in the Sulpician seminary of that city. He was ordained priest in 1831, and was made sub-librarian of St. Gall, also sub-regent and professor of the ecclesiastical seminary.
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György Fejér
1766 - 1851 (85 years)
György Fejér was a Hungarian author, Provost – Canon, and Director of the Library, was born at Keszthely, in the county of Zala in Hungary. He studied philosophy at Pest, and theology at Pressburg. In 1808, he obtained a theological professorship at Pest University. In 1818, he became chief director of the educational circle of Győr , and in 1824 was appointed librarian to the University of Pest. Fejér's works, which are nearly all written either in Latin or Hungarian, exceed one hundred and eighty.
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Franz Dibelius
1847 - 1924 (77 years)
Franz Wilhelm Dibelius was a German Protestant theologian. He was the father of theologian Martin Dibelius and an uncle to theologian Otto Dibelius . He studied at the University of Halle, receiving his theology license in 1871. In 1873 he obtained his habilitation for church history, and during the following year, became a pastor at Annenkirche in Dresden. In 1884 he was named pastor at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, then in 1910 was appointed Oberhofprediger and vice-president of the Landeskonsistorium . He was a founder of the Gesellschaft für Sächsische Kirchengeschichte , and in 1893 was named chair at the Dresden Hauptverein of the Gustav-Adolf Vereins.
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John Punch
1603 - 1661 (58 years)
John Punch was an Irish Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian. Punch was ultimately responsible for the now classic formulation of Ockham's Razor, in the shape of the Latin phrase entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, "entities are not to be multiplied unnecessarily." His formulation was slightly different: Non sunt multiplicanda entia sine necessitate. Punch did not attribute this wording to William of Ockham, but instead referred to the principle as a "common axiom" used by the Scholastics.
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Matthias Martinius
1572 - 1630 (58 years)
Matthias Martinius was a German Calvinist theologian and educator. Life He was born in Freienhagen, Waldeck and educated at Herborn Academy. He became court preacher at Dillenburg, and then taught at Herborn before moving to Emden in 1607.
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Joseph Nirschl
1823 - 1904 (81 years)
Joseph Nirschl was a German Catholic theologian and writer. Life He was ordained in 1851 and graduated as doctor of theology in 1854 at Munich. He was appointed teacher of Christian doctrine at Passau in 1855 and in 1862 professor of church history and patrology. In 1879 he became professor of church history at the University of Würzburg, and was appointed dean of the cathedral in 1892.
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Rudolf Steck
1842 - 1924 (82 years)
Johann Rudolf Julius Steck was a Swiss reformed theologian and writer. Steck was a pastor of the Reformed Church, Dresden . From 1881 to 1921 he was Professor of Theology at the University of Bern. He was influenced by the writings of Bruno Bauer and was a proponent of the Christ myth theory. He believed that the Pauline epistles were a case of second century pseudepigrapha.
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Adolf Paul Johannes Althaus
1861 - 1925 (64 years)
Adolf Paul Johannes Althaus was a German Lutheran theologian, born in Fallersleben . He was a professor at the universities of Göttingen and Leipzig since 1897. He was the father of Paul Althaus . He died in Leipzig.
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Edward Caldwell Moore
1857 - 1943 (86 years)
Edward Caldwell Moore was an American theologian, brother of George Foot Moore and Frank Gardner Moore. Early life and education He was born at West Chester, Pa., the son of the Rev. William Eves Moore and his wife, Harriet. He graduated from Marietta College in 1877 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1884; and studied at Berlin, Göttingen, and Gießen from 1884–1886. He received an honorary PhD from Brown University in 1891.
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Johann Jakob Grynaeus
1540 - 1617 (77 years)
Johann Jakob Grynaeus or Gryner was a Swiss Protestant divine. Life Grynaeus was born in Bern. His father, Thomas Grynaeus , was for a time professor of ancient languages at Basel and Bern, but afterwards became pastor of Röteln in Baden. He was nephew of the eminent Humanist Simon Grynaeus.
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Heinrich Bassermann
1849 - 1909 (60 years)
Heinrich Gustav Bassermann was a German Lutheran theologian born in Frankfurt am Main. From 1868 to 1873 he was a student at the universities of Jena, Zurich and Heidelberg. At Jena he was a pupil of Karl August Hase , and in Heidelberg he studied under Heinrich Julius Holtzmann . During this time period he also served with a dragoon unit in the Franco-Prussian War .
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Christian Daniel Beck
1757 - 1832 (75 years)
Christian Daniel Beck was a German philologist, historian, theologian and antiquarian, one of the most learned men of his time. Biography Beck was born at Leipzig and studied at Leipzig University, where in 1785 he was appointed professor of Greek and Latin literature. This post he resigned in 1819 in order to take up the professorship of history, but resumed it in 1825. In 1819, he also became editor of the Allgemeines Reportorium der neuesten in- und ausländischen Litteratur . He also had the management of the university library, was director of the institute for the deaf and dumb, and fill...
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Johannes Polyander
1568 - 1646 (78 years)
Johannes Polyander van den Kerckhoven was a Dutch Calvinist theologian, a Contra-Remonstrant but considered of moderate views. Life He was born in Metz, France. His father was from Ghent, but had gone into exile in Lorraine where he was a Protestant pastor. The family then moved to Heidelberg. He studied at Heidelberg under Franciscus Junius, graduating M.A. in 1589; and then for a doctorate in Geneva in 1590, under Theodore Beza.
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Jean Langevin
1821 - 1892 (71 years)
Jean-Pierre-François-Laforce Langevin was born and lived his life in Quebec. He was taught by a governess before entering the Petit Séminaire de Quebec. He began his studies for the priesthood at the Grand Séminaire and taught back at his old school, a vocation he continued after he was ordained priest. His teaching and parish experience covered a number of years and were rewarding and successful. His final position in education was principal of the École Normale Laval.
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Johannes Hoornbeek
1617 - 1666 (49 years)
Johannes Hoornbeek , was a Dutch Reformed theologian. He was a student and a follower of Gisbertus Voetius, writing with him on spiritual desertion. Like his teacher Voetieus, he was also later a professor of theology at the University of Leiden and University of Utrecht. The two universities were closely related in the 17th century, and both the teacher and his students participated in the intellectual "Utrech Circle." Another member of the circle was Hornbeek's student colleague Andreas Essenius. The circle was also known as De Voetiaanse Kring , and it was one of the most influential intell...
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Abu Raita al-Takriti
775 - 835 (60 years)
Abu Raita al-Takriti , was a 9th-century Syriac Orthodox theologian and apologist. Biography Little is known about Abu Raita's life, and although some sources portray him as a bishop of Tikrit there is no contemporary evidence to support this. Abu Raita referred to himself as a "teacher" . It appears that his reputation as a theologian made him so well known that he was recalled to defend his fellow non-Chalcedonian co-religionists in Armenia.
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Cecil John Cadoux
1883 - 1947 (64 years)
Cecil John Cadoux was a British Christian theologian and writer. Career He was born in Smyrna , the third son of William H. Cadoux and Emma Temple Cadoux. He was a student at Mansfield College, Oxford, where he was appointed Isherwood Fellow and Lecturer in Hebrew. He moved to the Yorkshire United Independent College at Shipley, in 1919, as professor of New Testament Criticism, Exegesis and Theology and of Christian Sociology. In 1933 he returned to Oxford as Mackennal professor of Church History and vice-principal of Mansfield College.
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Heinrich Bergner
1865 - 1918 (53 years)
Heinrich Bergner was a German art historian and Protestant pastor. Life He studied theology in Jena, Tübingen and Berlin and graduated from Jena in 1890. He was a pastor in Pfarrktzlar from 1891, Nischwitz from 1901 and Heilingen in Saxony-Anhalt from 1914. He was a major contributor and editor for the Historische Kommission für die Provinz Sachsen und Anhalt's series Beschreibenden Darstellung der älteren Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler - as part of it he published Kreis Ziegenrück und Schleusingen , Kreis Grafschaft Wernigerode , Kreis Wanzleben , Kreis Wolmirstedt , Kreis Liebenwerda , Kreis Querf...
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Andrés Pacheco
1550 - 1626 (76 years)
Andrés Pacheco was a Spanish churchman and theologian. Biography Andrés Pacheco was born in La Puebla de Montalbán on April 5, 1550. His father was Alonso Pacheco y Téllez-Girón, Lord of La Puebla de Montalbánm, who was a Knight of the Order of Santiago and commander of Medina de las Torres. His mother was Juana de Cárdenas, daughter of Alonso de Cárdenas, Conde of Puebla del Maestre.
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Jia Yuming
1880 - 1964 (84 years)
Jia Yuming was a Chinese Christian theologian and biblical commentator. He worked at several seminaries and eventually became a vice-chairperson of the Communist Party-aligned Three-Self Patriotic Movement. He self-identified as a fundamentalist and taught that "perfect salvation", which in his definition entailed becoming a "Christ-human", was the ultimate goal of all Christians.
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Onofre Pratdesaba
1733 - 1810 (77 years)
Onofre Pratdesaba was a Catalan jesuit and writer. He taught philosophy in Barcelona and theology in Girona. He was expelled by Charles III of Spain and, like many others, he continued to study arts and sciences in Italy.
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James Roosevelt Bayley
1814 - 1877 (63 years)
James Roosevelt Bayley was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Newark and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore . Early life and education Bayley's paternal grandfather, Dr. Richard Bayley, was a professor at Columbia College who created New York's quarantine system. Dr. Bayley had three children by his first wife, among whom was Elizabeth Ann Seton, who was canonized in 1975 as the first American-born Roman Catholic saint. After his first wife's death, Dr. Bayley married Charlotte Amelia Barclay, a member of the Roosevelt family, and the couple had seven children, the sixth of whom was Archbishop Bayley's father, Guy Carleton Bayley, born in 1786.
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Valentin Gröne
1817 - 1882 (65 years)
Valentin Gröne was a Catholic theologian. He obtained a Doctor of Theology from the University of Munich in 1848. In 1868, he became the dean of Irmgarteichen, within Netphen. Known works "Tetzel und Luther oder Lebensgeschichte und Rechtfertigung des Ablasspredigers und Inquisitors Dr. Johann Tetzel aus dem Predigerorden "Die Papst-Geschichte" "Sacramentum oder Begriff und Bedeutung von Sacrament in der alten Kirche bis zur Scholastik" [Brilon , 1853]"Glaube und Wissenschaft" "Der Ablass, seine Geschichte und Bedeutung in der Heilsokonomie" "Compendium der Kirchengeschichte"
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Henry Holden
1596 - 1662 (66 years)
Henry Holden was an English Roman Catholic priest, known as a theologian. Life Henry Holden was the second son of Commodore Holden, of Chaigley, Lancashire, and Shelby Eleanor, his wife. He entered the English College at Douai under the name of Johnson, 18 September 1618. There he studied till 15 July 1623, when he proceeded to Paris, took his degree as Doctor of Divinity, and was made a professor at the Sorbonne. He also became penitentiary at Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet and one of the grand vicars of the Archbishop of Paris.
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Marie Dentière
1495 - 1561 (66 years)
Marie Dentière was a Walloon Protestant reformer and theologian, who moved to Geneva. She played an active role in Genevan religion and politics, in the closure of Geneva's convents, and preaching with such reformers as John Calvin and William Farel. In addition to her writings on the Reformation, Dentière's writings seem to be a defense and propagation of the female perspective in the rapidly changing world. Her second husband, Antoine Froment, was also active in the reformation.
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Walter Blankenburg
1903 - 1986 (83 years)
Walter Blankenburg was a German Protestant pastor, director of church music and musicologist, who focused in several publications on liturgy, hymnology, and on the sacred music of the early Baroque period, especially by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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William P. Harrison
1830 - 1895 (65 years)
William Pope Harrison was an American Methodist minister and theologian, and was the 48th Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. He was an author of books on Methodist theology, most notably The Gospel among the Slaves, the first comprehensive accounting of the religious beliefs of African American slaves in the United States.
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Joseph Ignatius Ritter
1787 - 1857 (70 years)
Joseph Ignatius Ritter was a German historian. He pursued his philosophical and theological studies at the University of Breslau, was ordained priest in 1811, and for several years was engaged in pastoral work.
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Josephus Adjutus
1602 - 1668 (66 years)
Josephus Adjutus , was a famous Chaldean theologian. He advanced some fundamental theories on religion during the Reformation, and criticized corruption in the Catholic church. Biography Josephus was born in Mosul, in present-day Iraq. He apparently came from a family of Chaldean Catholics. After his parents died in 1606, relatives sent Josephus to be brought up in Jerusalem. Until 1613, he lived and was educated in Palestine in a monastery of the Friars Minor, a Franciscan Order. He was made a Deacon in 1632 under Pope Urban VIII. Five years later, in 1637, he earned the title of Doctor of Theology at the Collegium Bononiensis in Bologna.
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Thomas Bouquillon
1840 - 1902 (62 years)
Thomas-Joseph Bouquillon was a Belgian Catholic theologian, priest and professor. Bouquillon was the first professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America and introduced social sciences into its curriculum.
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Anton Friedrich Ludwig Pelt
1799 - 1861 (62 years)
Anton Friedrich Ludwig Pelt was a German Protestant theologian. He studied philosophy and theology at the universities of Jena and Kiel, obtaining his habilitation at the University of Berlin in 1826. While serving as a lecturer of theology at Berlin, he was influenced by the teachings of Friedrich Schleiermacher, August Neander and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In 1828 he became an associate professor at the University of Greifswald, and in 1835 succeeded August Detlev Christian Twesten as a full professor at the University of Kiel. In 1852 he was relieved of his duties at the university following the takeover of Schleswig-Holstein by the Danish government.
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Guibert of Nogent
1055 - 1124 (69 years)
Guibert de Nogent was a Benedictine historian, theologian, and author of autobiographical memoirs. Guibert was relatively unknown in his own time, going virtually unmentioned by his contemporaries. He has only recently caught the attention of scholars who have been more interested in his extensive autobiographical memoirs and personality which provide insight into medieval life.
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Oscar Joliet
1878 - 1969 (91 years)
Oscar Joliet was a scholar-priest who served between 1948 and 1969 as the Auxiliary bishop of Ghent. Life Oscar Jozef Joliet was born in Ghent, third recorded son of the baker, Augustus Joliet and his wife Lucia Joliet-Ysebaert from Zelzate. He attended school at the Sint-Barbaracollege, a Jesuit establishment in the city. Between 1896 and 1905 he attended the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. It was here that he received his doctorate of philosophy on 1 June 1901, and was ordained into the priesthood on 20 September 1902. Still at the Gregorian University, on 30 June 1905 he re...
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James of Lausanne
James of Lausanne was the superior of the Dominican order in France from 1318 until his death in 1321. Nothing is known of James's life before his entrance into the Dominican priory at Lausanne in Switzerland and his assignment to theological studies in Paris in 1303. James earned his master's degree in theology in 1317 and was elected superior of the Dominican Province of France in 1318, a position he held until his death in 1321. In the course of his short academic career, James authored commentaries on multiple books of the Old and New Testaments and produced some 1,500 sermons. His oeuvr...
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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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John Simson
1668 - 1740 (72 years)
John Simson was a Scottish "New Licht" theologian, involved in a long investigation of alleged heresy. He was suspended from teaching as Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow for his later life.
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Heinrich Heshusius
1556 - 1597 (41 years)
Heinrich Heshusius was a prominent third-generation German Lutheran pastor, superintendent, and polemicist. He was the second son of Tilemann Heshusius and Hanna von Bert, two well-educated and influential German Lutherans from Wesel on the lower Rhine.
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Peter Arkoudios
1562 - 1633 (71 years)
Peter Arkoudios was a Greek scholar of the 17th century and a Roman Catholic priest. Biography Born in Corfu in 1562/1563, Arkoudios studied at the Greek Pontifical College of Saint Athanasius in Rome and graduated with a doctorate of philosophy and theology in January 1591. He converted to Roman Catholicism from Greek Orthodoxy and was ordained a priest, showing great dedication to his new religion. Because of his knowledge and zeal he became loyal and very capable diplomat in many fine religious missions. Pope Gregory XIV and Pope Clement VII commissioned him to regulate the interests of th...
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Friedemann Bechmann
1628 - 1703 (75 years)
Friedemann Bechmann was a German Lutheran theologian. Life Friedemann Bechmann was born in Elleben, a small town in the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, a short distance to the north of Erfurt. His father, Andreas Bechmann, was a church pastor originally from Remda, nearby. However, his father died in 1633 and after his mother, born Anna Maria Glass, also died, in 1637, he was taken in by his mother's brother, the physician Balthasar Glass, and grew up in Arnstadt. Later he was taken on by another of his mother's relatives, Salomo Glass, and educated at the gymnasium in Gotha...
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Johann Jacob Rambach
1693 - 1735 (42 years)
Johann Jacob Rambach, also Johann Jakob Rambach was a Lutheran theologian and hymn writer. Life Rambach was the son of Hans Jakob Rambach, a cabinet maker. For a time, he trained with his father, but then attended the University of Halle as a student of medicine, before becoming interested in theology. In 1723 he was appointed as an adjunct of the theological faculty, and in 1727, after August Hermann Francke's death, a professor. After earning a Doctor of Divinity in 1731, he was appointed the first professor of theology at University of Giessen. He was offered a professorship at the University of Göttingen, but decided to remain in Giessen.
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Josse Ravesteyn
1506 - 1570 (64 years)
Josse Ravesteyn, also spelled Ravestein , was a Flemish Roman Catholic theologian. Biography Born about 1506, at Tielt, a small town in Flanders, hence often called Tiletanus also known as Jean Leonardi Hasselius
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John Erskine
1721 - 1803 (82 years)
John Erskine , the Scottish theologian, was born near Dunfermline at Carnock on 2 June 1721. His father was the great Scottish jurist John Erskine of Carnock and his grandfather was Colonel John Erskine of Cardross who had been in William of Orange's army when it invaded England in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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