

Adscripsi cum voto omnis prosperitatis
J. Baptista Ottius
A[rchi] Diac[onu]s Templi Capit[uli] Tiguri
Die 7. Jul. 1719 Badis Helvetiorum.
* Col 3:11: Vulgate: “ubi non est
gentilis et Iudaeus … barbarus et Scytha …”
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There is neither Greek nor Jew … Barbarian, Scythian… *
I wrote this wishing all the best
Johann Baptist Otte
archideacon of the cathedral church of Zürich
Baden an der Limmat, on July 7, 1719.
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472. Baden an der Limmat, July 7, 1719
Otte, Johann Baptist
(1661-1732), Swiss Reformed pastor,
Hebraist
Johann Baptist Otte (Ott) was born in 1661, the son of the
theologian and orientalist Johann Heinrich Otte
(1619-1682). He was deacon in Stein, then pastor in Zolliken; from
1702 professor of Hebrew, from 1706 pastor of the Grossmünster in
Zürich, and from 1716 archideacon of the same. Some of his works
are: Dissertatio de votis. Zürich,
1681. – Bericht von denen vor der S. Reformation in teutscher
Sprach gegebenen geschriebenen und gedruckten Uebersetzungen der
Heil. Schrift. Zürich, 1710. – Muthmassliche Gedancken von
denen im Brachmonat und Heumonat MDCCXXIV zu Cloten … entdeckten
… Antiquitäten. Zürich, 1724. – Des vortrefflichen
jüdischen Geschicht-Schreibers Flavii Josephi sämmtliche Wercke
… neu übersetzet. Zürich, 1736. – Vitae historia ab ipsomet
Badae Helvetiorum in otio per usum thermarum mense Junio 1732
adumbrata, in Satura dissertationum …, Zürich. P. I,
pag. 20-46. U. N. ?, 1741, pag. 238.
Otte wrote in the album in the nearby spa of Baden an der Limmat,
famous for its sulphuric thermal baths, on the summer of 1719. In
the same village he wrote his autobiography in June 1732. For
ancient Romans this place was known as Aquae Helvetiae or Thermae
Helvetiae.
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