a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Hof, May 7, 1781. In 1801 he was teacher at the gymnasium of his native place, in 1809 deacon at Miinchberg, in 1814 at Erlangen, in 1816 professor of theology there, and died in 1843, member of consistory and doctor of theology. He wrote, De Apologeticis Evang. Joannis Consiliis (Erlangen, 1821-25): — Grundriss eines Systems der neutest. Hermeneutik (ibid. 1817): — De Mosaicis Symbolis et Geniis (ibid. 1827): — Commentarius in Priora Geneseos Capita (1830): — Literargeschichte der melanchthonischen Original- Ausgabe der augsburgischen Confession (Nuremberg, eod.): — Linguae Aramaicae Usus in Nov. Testam. etc. (1831): — Die biblische Theologie oder Judaismus und Christianismus (Erlangen, 1814, 1821, 2 volumes): Collectivum der davidischen Konige in Jerusalem (1823): — Das Hohelied ein Collectivgesang auf Serubabel (1825): — Erlauterung der funf Psalmbucher (1827): — Ueber die Ursprache, etc. (1840). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:87, 107, 139, 200, 213, 215, 245, 293, 301, 329, 340; 2:20, 31, 60, 99, 172; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:162; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:640; Diestel, Gesch. des Alten Testaments, page 668 sq., 697, 713 sq., 747, 755. (B.P.)