a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Colberg, in Pomerania, Jan. 26,1659. He studied at the different universities, was for a time professor of ethics and history at Greifswald, afterwards pastor and member of consistory at Wismar, where he died, October 30, 1698. He wrote, De Tolerantia Diversarum Religionum in Politia: — De Origine et Progressu Haeresium et Errorum in Ecclesia; De Sapienta Veterum Hebraeorum: — Platonisch-hermetisches Christenthum. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:501. (B.P.)