a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Hanover, July 5, 1665. He studied at Helmstuadt, and continued his Oriental studies in England. In 1695 he was first preacher at Melle. in the duchy of Osnabruck, in 1698 general superintendent and court-preacher of East Frisia, accepted in 1711 a call to Hamburg, anrd died September 21, 1726, leaving, De Nominibus et Essentia Dei (Helmstadt, 1690): — De Paradiso ejusque Amissione et Custodia (ibid. 1698). See Doring, Die ggelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:375; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)