a Lutheran minister of Germany, was born at Affalterhach, April 4, 1705. He studied at Tubingen, was in 1735 pastor at Sch.waickhelm, and died in 1765, leaving, De Origine et Auctorite Punctorum Hebraicorum Divina (Tubingen, 1728): — De Augustiniana Decalogi Divisione (ibid. 1733): — Vertheidigung der Integritatis Textus Hebraici Veteris Testamenti (Heilbronn, 1764). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:197; Steinschneider, Bibliogr. Handbuch, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)