a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Hanover, December 7, 1697. He studied at Jena, was for some time court-chaplain at Wolfenbiittel, in 1727 pastor at Hamburg, and died February 17, 1743. He is the author of, Einleitung in die Geschichte der augsburgischen Confession (Hamburg, 1730): — De Codicibus Veteris et Novi Testamenti Quibus Lutherus in Conficienda Intepretatione Germanica usus est (1735): — Geschichte der Bibelbersetzung Dr. Martin Luther's (edited by J.M. Gotze, Halle, 1772). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:167; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)