HEIDEGGER, JOHANN HEINRICH Swiss theologian, was born at Barentschweil, in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, on July I, 1633. After studying in Germany he settled in 1665 in Zurich, where he was successively professor of moral philosophy and of theology. He died there on Jan. 18, 1698. Heidebger was the principal author of the Formula Con sensus Helvetica in 1675, which was designed to unite the Swiss Reformed churches, but had an opposite effect.
His writings include: De historia sacra patriarcharum exercitationes selectae (1667-71) ; De ratione studiorum, opuscula aurea, etc. (1670) ; Historia papatus (1684 ; under the name Nicander von Hohenegg) ; Manuductio in viam concordiae Protestantium ecclesiasticae (1686) ; Tumulus concilii Tridentini (169o) ; Exercitationes biblicae (1700) , with a life of the author prefixed; Corpus theologise Christianae (170o, edited by J. H. Schweizer) ; Ethicae Christianae elementa (1711) ; and lives of his friends J. H. Hottinger (1667) and J. L. Fabricius (1698). His autobiography appeared in 1698, under the title Historic vitae J. H. Heideggeri.
See the articles in Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopudie and the Allge meine deutsche Biographie; and cf. W. Gass, Geschichte der protestant ischen Dogmatik, ii. 353 ff.