a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born February 2, 1696, at Belitz, in Mecklenburg. He studied at Rostock and Jena, was in 1724 librarian at Kiel, in 1730 doctor and professor of theology, and in 1733 member of consistory. He died September 27, 1774, leaving, Leben und Thaten Ignatii Loyola (Rostock, 1721, 1725): — De Conciliis Lateranensibus (Kiel, 1726): — De Sacrorum Christianorum in Cimbria Primordiis (1728): — De Melanchthonis Moderatione in August. Confess. Negotio Conspicua (1730): — Historia Critica August. Confessionis (1732): — Sermones de Tempore (1766). See Moser, Jetztlebende Theologen; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:328, 329, 723, 827. (B.P.)