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Zur Selbststilisierung Johann Jakob Wettsteins

Abstract

Regarding his character the posthumous assessments of the famous textual critic John James Wettstein range between praise (Krighout) and insult (Frey). In contrast to these external ascriptions the author focusses on Wettstein’s self-assessment or, more precisely, on his self-fashioning by consulting an apology that has been drafted in the course of the “Wettsteinhandel” and the Dedicatio of Wettstein’s Greek New Testament. It turns out that Wettstein was not afraid to put himself in a line with big names in the history of protestant theology.