a preacher of the German Catholics, was originally a Protestant, but joined the movement of the German Catholics in 1845, and died at Mayence, Sept. 14,1884. He published, Kein Papstthum! Kein Symbolwang (Magdeburg, 1845): — Die Hegelianer als Lichtfreunde (Darmstadt, 1846): — Zeugnisse deutsch-katholischen Geistes (1847): — Freheit oder Autoriftdt, written against bishop Ketteler (1862); See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:554 sq. (B.P.)