a Lutheran theologian of Germany, nephew of Johannes Kahler (q.v.), was born at Wolmar, Hesse-Cassel, March 27,1699. He studied at Rinteln, where he also commenced his academical career, and where he died, November 14, 1747, professor of theology, having taken two years previous the degree of doctor of theology at Gottingen. He wrote, De Veris et Fictis Textus Sacri Trajectionibus: — De Methodo Studii Theologici:— De ἀποκαραδοκίᾷ τῆς κτίσεως ad Romans 8:19 : — De Innocentia Dei circa Lapsum Primorum Parentum. See Moser, Lexikon jetztlebender Gottesgelehrten; Neubauer, Nachricht von jetztlebenden Gottesgelehrten; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)