a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born December 25, 1669, at Leipsic. He studied at his native place, and commenced his academical career there in 1694. In 1697 he went to Giessen, was in 1716 member of consistory and superintendent, in the same year doctor of theology, in 1718 general superintendent, and died December 16, 1756. He wrote, Theologia Christiana in Numeris (Leipsic, 1702): — Ordo Salutis sub Ratione Theoloqici Problematis Delineatus (Giessen, 1704; 2d ed. 1744): — Themata Selecta ex Variis Philosophiae Partibus Deprompta (1710): — De Antiquissimno et Novissimo Theologo hoc est, etc. (1716). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)