a German theologian, was born at Zurich, Switzerland, in 1745; entered the ministry in 1768, and was called to a pastorate in his native place in 1784, where he died April 14, 1796. Klauser has left us only a few of his sermons, but these all evince superior scholarship. A selection of them was printed in 1798, and was accompanied with an introduction by Dr. H. A. Niemeyer. A list of those printed is given by Doring, Gelehrte Theol. Deutschlands, vol. ii, s.v.