Johann Rudolf Zwinger (Pasteur)

See also: Zwinger

Johann Rudolf Zwinger , Swiss theologist, younger brother of Theodor Zwinger the Young person, was born with Basle, in September 1660.

Having completed its courses of philosophy and theology, he was admitted, in with the saint ministry. In the intention improving its talents for the pulpit, it went to Zurich and then to Geneva, where it had the honor to preach in front of the prince of Anhalt, which testified the desire to take it along in its States. In 1686, it accepted the place of Chapelain of a Swiss regiment to the service of the France and followed it to the army of Flanders. Tired life of the camps soon, it returned in its fatherland, and after having fulfilled some time the functions of the ministry in two churches of countryside, it was, in 1700, elected Pasteur of Holy-Elisabeth, with Basle, and, in 1703, appointed ecclesiastical superintendent.

Provided, the same year, of the pulpit of controversy to the academy, it fills it with much success and died the November 18th 1708. In addition to several funeral orations, among which one quotes that of Pierre Werenfels, his/her colleague, and of the theses, including one, Of morientium adparitione , 1704, one has of him:

  1. a Treated hope of Israel (in German), Basle, 1685, in-12, in which he speaks about the future conversion of the Jews;
  2. a translation of the History of the revolution of England , ibid, in-8°;
  3. a Sermon against magic arts , ibid, 1692, in-4. (see the Athenaeum rauricœ , p. 89.)

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