a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born in Austria, February 19, 1746, and died at Freiburg, March 4, 1809. He wrote, Elenchus Sanctorum Patrum Ordine Alphabetico (Innsbruck, 1780): — Praelectiones Theologiae Polemicae (Vienna, 1781): — Die Psalmen David's, frei aus dem Hebraischen ubersetzt (Augsburg, 1798): — Anleitung zu einer vollsundigen Pastoraltheologie (1799, 3 volumes): — Uebersetzung und Auslegung des Neuen Testaments (Ulm, 1802-1805, 6 volumes). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologens Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:342, 670; 2:35, 70. (B.P.)