a Lutheran minister of Germany, was born at Lineburg, Aug. 31, 1670. He studied at Helmstadt and Jena, was in 1695 military chaplain, in 1697 pastor at Giffhorn, and from 1716 pastor of St. Martin's at Braunschweig, where he died Aug. 2, 1728. He wrote, Dissert. de Avenione, qua Ratione ad Pontificatum Romanum Perveneris (Jena, 1693): — Diss. Theolog. de Conscientia Anxia et Dubia (ibid.): Das Leben Ernst, Herzogs zu Braunschweig und Liineburg. (Braunschweig, 1719): — Das Evangelische Liineburg, oder Reformations und Kirchen-Historie der Stadt Liiueburg (ibid. eod.): — Epistola Gratulatoria de Nummis Hussiticis (without date). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)