a Lutheran theologian, was born June 25,1517, at Mansfeld, and died as superintendent. at Stollberg, May 22,1569. He wrote, Evangelia Heroico Carmine Reddita (Basle, 1551, and often) :-Poemata. Sacra in Jesaias Caput. LIII, Psalmum XXII et quaesdam Evangelia (ibid. 1551): - Explicationes in Evange e lia Domninicalia et Festivalia (ibid. eod.) :- Epistolce Dominicales et Festivales .Carmine. Heroico Expresses (ibid. eod.) Anmaginuin in Apocalypsi Joannis Descriptio Elegiaco Carmine Expressa (Wittenberg, 1571).. See Wetzel, Anal. Hymnol. i, 45; Jocher, Allgeneines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)