a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born March 12, 1741, at Redlau, near Dantzic. He studied at Helmstadt, alnd was in 1766 appointed rector of the Johannes school at Dantzic. He accepted a call as professor extraordilarius of theology to Jena in 1768, and drowned himself March 18, 1782, leaving De Vera Verborum Sermonis Hebraici Natura (Sedan, 1740): — De Choreis Sacris Ebreoraum (Greifsw. 1766): — De Vera Natura et Indole Verbi ל 8 8א (Sedan, 1768): — De Gloria Christi (Jenae, 1769): — Institutiones Theologiae Dogmaticae (ibid. 1772-76): — De Episcopis Temnpore Apostolorum (ibid. 1770): — Explanatio Locorum Scripturae S. Divinitatem Jesu Christi Probantium (ibid. 1774): — Jesus Christus Filius Dei (1776, 1777, 2 parts): — Progr. Super Integritate Scripturae (ibid. 1777): — De eo, quod in Religione in Rationis Superat (ibid. 1778-81). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1:310 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:22, 298, 383, 447; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:5195; Steinschneider, Bibliog. Handbuch, s.v.; Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religienses, s.v.; Herzog, Real-Encyklop. (2d ed.) s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)