a Roman Catholic theologian of Austria, was born at Prague, November 10, 1748. In 1765 he joined the Dominicans, and received holy orders in 1771. For a time tutor at the grammar school in Prague, he went, in 1783, to Klattau, Bohemia, as director of the German grammar-school. In 1786 be was made episcopal notary at Budweis, in 1802 doctor of theology, in 1811 dean of the theological faculty at Prague, and died April 15, 1822. He is the author of a number of ascetical works, for which see Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:258, 350. (B.P.)