a Reformed theologian of Germany, was born at Brunswick, July 24, 1722. He studied at Halle, was in 1746 director of the Reformed gymnasium, in 1750 cathedral preacher, in 1751 preacher at Berlin, in 1774 again at Halle, and died Feb. 23, 1795. He published, De Occasione Psalmi 34 Conscribendi (Halle, 1747): — De Conciliando Loca Marc. 15:25 et John 19:14 (1748): — De Auctoribus Classicis in Christianorum Scholis Caute Tractandis (1749): — Entwurf einer katechetischen und popularen Theologie (2d ed. 1785): — Heidelbergischer Katechismus (1781 ). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)