a Swiss theologian, was born at Basle in 1800, and died there in 1875, doctor and professor of theology. He published, Blicke in die Bibel, etc. (Winterthur, 1828-30; new ed. 1840): — Ueber die Texteskritik der Schriften des Juden Philo (Basle, 1839): — Des Juden Philo Buch von der Weltschopfung (Berlin, 1841): — the art. Philo in the first edition of Herzog's Real-Encyklop.: — Die messianischen Erwartungen des Juden Philo (Basle, 1870): — Erklarung des Barnabasbriefes (Leipsic, 1869). After his death Riggenbach and Orelli published Des Flavius Josephus Schrift gegen den Apion. Text und Erklisrung (Basle, 1877). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2:916; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:401. (B.P.)