a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Harkesbittel, March 16, 1768. In 1794 he was teacher at Hanover, in 1796 preacher at Schloss- Ricklingen, in 1800 at Hohenbostel, and in 1806 first preacher at Stadthagen, where he died, in 1826. He wrote: Ueber den Verfall des offentlichen Religionscultus in theologischer Hinsicht (Neustadt, 1818): — Der hannoverischer Landeskatechismus als Leseund Erbauungsbuch (Hanover, 1800): — Commentar uber der hannoverischer Landeskatechismus (Gottingen, 1811). See Winer, Handbucch der theol. Lit. 1:496; 2:219; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:264. (B.P.).