page_title: Johannes Zollikofer
section_title: Life and work
hierarchical_section_title: Johannes Zollikofer / Life and work
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick gegen Osten in den Chor der ref. Kirche in Herisau. Augenfällig sind die Stuckaturen an der gotisch-gewölbten Decke. Aussergewöhnlich für eine ref. Kirche ist das Sakraments-Häuschen auf der linken Seite im Chor (Turmseite).
context_page_description: Johannes Zollikofer was a Swiss reformed vicar.
context_section_description: Johannes Zollikofer studied in Zürich and Basel. At the age of twenty he was called as a German vicar to Geneva. He later continued his studies in Oxford and Cambridge. He worked  as a deacon in St. Leonhard and St. Gallen, and later as a vicar und chamberlain in Herisau in Appenzell Ausserrhoden. He was author and translator of many books.
  According to the Stemmatologia Sangallensis of Johann Jacob Scherrer (1653–1733) he was 1653–1692 vicar, 1653–1654 German Adjunkt in Geneva, 1655–1655 German assistant in Amsterdam, 1657–1692 Synodalis, 1657–1666 deacon in St. Leonhard, 1657–1692 Collega Disputat., 1657–1692 Collega music., 1660–1660 Bußner Coll. theol. I, 1665–1665 Bußner Coll. theol. II, 1666–1692 vicar in Herisau, (the 13th since the reformation), 1667–1692 Synodalis of Ausserrhoden, 1671–1692 Camerarius of Ausserrhoden and 1684–1692 Ordinari civil registry officer in Ausserrhoden.
  Zollikofers sermon on The  unholy fiends'  miserable condition (Der unseligen Unholden elender Zustand), held on 5 May 1689 in Herisau and printed in the same year in St. Gallen, is based on the publication Magiologia - Christian warning regarding superstition and sorcery (Magiologia - Christliche Warnung für dem Aberglauben und der Zauberei) of Bartholomäus Anhorn the Younger, in which magical practices are criticised. Witch-hunts were conducted with reference to his sermon.
  His master piece A Newly Opened Treasury of Heavenly Incense, or Christian's Companion: Containing Instructions and Devotional Exercises, Applicable to All Persons and Circumstances in Life (Himmlischer Weyhrauch-Schatz) was published in 1691 and reprinted in high numbers over 150 years.
  The inscription H. Johannes Zollikofer, Pfarrer in a bell of the church in Herisau, which was cast in 1679, reminds on this vicar.
caption: Church in Herisau, where Zollikofer worked from 1666 to 1692
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