a German scholar, son of Heinrich, was born at Kiel, March 26, 1684. He studied at different universities, was in 1721 professor of Greek and Oriental languages at his native city, in 1727 professor of philosophy, and died Oct. 5,1747. He published, De Custodia Templi Hierosolymitani Nocturna (Kiel, 1710): — De Gigantibus (1715): — De Amico Israelitarum in Festo Tabernaculorum Consortio (1717): — De Christo Apostolo et Pontifice Confessionis Nostrce (1721): — De Hadriani Imperatoris Nomine, Indole, Virtutibus ac Vitiis (1722): — De Hadriani Imperatoris Moribus, Eruditisque cum Doctoribus Judceorum Controversiis (1723). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)