a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Hanover, June 8, 1767. He studied at Gottingen, Marburg, and Erlangen, was promoted as doctor of philosophy in 1787, and died at Gottingen, March 7, 1791. He is the author of, De Ratione sive Relatione Filii cum Patre Sententia (Gottingen, 1787), a prize essay: — De Doctrina Platonis de Deo, etc. (Marburg, 1788): — Commentarii de Scriptoribus Ecclesim Latina Priorum VI Saeculorum, etc. (Leipsic, 1791). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:596, 597; 854; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands,. s.v. (B.P.)