a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born December 20, 1700, in East Frisia. He studied at Halle, was preacher in 1723, in 1741 court-preacher at Aurich, in Prussia, and died December 9, 1770. He published, Das Evangelium von Christo, in dem 53 Kapitel Iesaid (Bremen, 1733): — Das Evangeium in den 54 Kapitel Iesaia (1736): — Das Evangelisch- lutherische Kitchen Glaubensbekenntniss (1739): — Richtige Mittelstrasse in der Gnadenlehre der Evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche (1747). See Neubauer, Jetztlebende Theologen; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)