a Dutch theologian, was born August 20, 1705, at Hanau. He studied at Marburg and Utrecht, was in 1728 professor at Lingen, in Westphalia, in 1739 member of consistory, in 1758 professor at Campen, and died in 1793. He wrote, Specimen Historiae Analyticae (Lingen, 1732; Amsterdam, 1734): — Historie Ecclesiasticae Pragmaticae Specimen 1- 21 (1747-52): — Disp. de Vera AEtate Legationis Athenagora pro Christianis (1752): — Antiquitates Evangelicae (1758): — Antiquitates Romanae (1759): — De Vera State, Dignitate et Patria Minucii Felicis (1762), etc. See Meusel, Gelehrtes Deutschland; Winer. Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:609, 884, 910; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)