a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Leipsic, Jan. 22, 1757. In 1782 he was appointed professor of philosophy, and in 1785 professor of Greek and Latin literature, at Leipsic, where he died, Dec. 13, 1832. He wrote, Monogrammata Hermeneutices Libroroum Novi Foederis (Leipsic, 1803): — Commentarii Histor. Decretor. Relig. Christ. et Formulce Lutherance (ibid. 1801): — Consilia Formiule Compositce, Recitatce, Traditce, Editce, Defensce, et Prudentissima et Saluberrima Explicuit (ibid. 1830)': — Commentationes Criticoe Quinque de Glossematis in Veteribus Libris (ibid. 1832). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 107, 592, 865; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. i, 86. (B. P.)