a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born March 16, 1734. He studied at Tubingen, was in 1766 deacon at Stuttgart, in 1786 member of consistory, in 1799 doctor of theology, and died April 27, 1828, leaving, De Decentia Restabilitionis Generis umncani (Tubingen, 1758): — De Commodis Angelorum Bonorum ex Opere Redemptionis (1766): — Theologia Dogmatica (1825): — Initia Theologiae Moralis (1826): — Einleitung in die Schriften des neuen Bundes (1799): — Ueber die Authentie der altestamentlichen Schriften (1804): — Ueber den Pentateuch (1806): — Die sammtlichen Schriften des alten und neuen Testaments (1824). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v; Winer, Handbuch der Theol. Lit. 1:77; 78, 82, 389; 2:297. (B.P.)