1618

Jacob Alting

Sluiten
First name
Jacob
Last name
Alting
Date of Birth
1618
Date of Death
1679
Born in
Heidelberg
Died in
Groningen

Jacob Alting studied in Groningen, and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England. He held the chair of oriental languages at Groningen University (1641) and was appointed professor of theology (1667) there. He crossed swords with Maresius on issues of biblical exegesis after the latter had accused him (1668) of heterodoxy. He was involved in some refutations of Spinoza's TTP, and enthusiastically started drawing up arguments from the books of Ezra and Nehemia for a refutation of the ‘Theological-Political Treatise’ which was being prepared by the Cartesian Deventer theologian Antonius Perizonius. See: NNBW, vol. 1, cols 96–7; Van Bekkum, 2004; DDP, vol. 1, pp. 18–19; Touber, 2013, pp. 481–90 (Alting as Bible commentator).