a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born July 30, 1730. He studied at Tubingen was in 1761 preacher, in 1777 professor of theology, and died April 13, 1786. He published, De Sanctis Mundum et Angelos Judicaturis in 1 Corinthians 6:3 (Tubingen, 1755): — Chaldaismi Biblici Fundamenta (1770): — Commentatio pro loco Eusebii in Hist. Ecclesiastes 4:13 (1777): — De Peccato Originali atque Speciatim (1778): — Oratio in Verba Psalms 110:1 (1780): — An et quo Sensu Patres Antenicceni Christum Dicerint Creaturan (1781): — De θεοπνευστίᾷ (1784). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:110, 239, 402, 410, 422, 433, 446, 447, 596, 597. (B.P.)