a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born in 1760 at Erlangen. In 1790 he was con-rector at the gymnasium in Altstadt-Erlangen, and in 1813 he was called as professor of the gymnasium at Baireuth, where he died, March 22, 1815. He published, Die Religion des Christen (Furth, 1803): — Lazarus oder iiber das Unstatthafte der natiirlichen Erlduterungen der Wundergeschichten im Neuen Testament (Erlangen, 1810): — Ueber die Dreieinigkeit Gottes (Bamberg, 1814; 2d ed. 1818). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 392, 398, 421. (B. P.)