an Italian engraver, practiced the art at Rome about 1775. He engraved a number of plates, among which is a print of The Ascension. Coppenstein, JOHANN ANDREAS, a German Jesuit, who became a famous preacher at Coblentz in 1614, pastor of St. Peter's, at Heidelberg, in 1629, and died there, March 3,1638, is the author of Excalvinizatio Catechismi Calvino- Heidelbergensis: — Castigatio Apologiae Calvino-catecheticae et Apologistae Amstelrodamensis: — Controversiarum Luthero-Calvinista Quadriceps: — Luthero-Calvinisemi Antichristus, Genealogia et Anti- papista Mendax: — Calvinisticae fidei Speculum: — Luthero Calvinismi Infidelitas de Christo et Antichristo. Most of his writings were published under the title, J.A. Coppensteinii Controversiae inter Catholicos et Haereticos (1643). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)