a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Anspach, July 11, 1762. He studied at Erlangen and Gottingen was in 1788 professor of theology at Erlangen, in 1808 a member of consistory at Munich, in 1818 director of the Protestant superior consistory, and died at Esslihgen, May 15, 1829. He wrote, Observationes ad loca Quaedam Vet. Test. (Gottingen, 1788): — Einleitung in, die Schriften des Neuen Testaments (Erlangen, 1794, 2 volumes; 2d ed. 1801-1803): — Symbolae Criticae ad Intepretationem Vaticiniorum Habacuci (ibid. 1795): — Commentarius in Epistolam Juds (ibid. 1795-96): — De Lectoribus Epistolae Pauli ad Ephesios (ibid. 1797): — Curae in Librios Novi Federis (1798-1804, 7 parts): — Lehrbuch der Einleitung in die Schriften des Neuen Testaments (1802): Epistola Judae, Graecae (1804). See Doring, Die Gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:9, 75, 103, 210, 229, 273, 556; 2:173. (B.P.)