Zimmermann, Johann Jakob (1)

an eloquent German preacher, was born in the duchy of Wurtemberg in 1644. He was generally regarded as a disciple of Boehman and Brouqnelle, whose doctrines he rendered highly popular, making many converts in Germany and the united provinces of the Netherlands. He was for some years professor of mathematics at Heidelberg. He was about to depart for America to escape the persecution to which his preaching had subjected him, when he died at Rotterdam, in 1693. The most noted of his works is entitled a Revelation of Antichrist.