a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born December 2, 1700. He studied at Tiibingen, travelled extensively, was in 1731 appointed court- preacher and professor at Copenhagen, in 1742 doctor of theology, in 1749 general superintendent of Schleswig and Holstein, in 1757 professor at Tubingen, and died March 6, 1777. He published, De Usu Experientiae Spiritualis in Scripturarum Intepretatione (2d ed. Leipsic, 1735): — Meletema de Sensu Septem Parabolarum Matthew 13 Prophetico (1733): — Meletema de Spiritus Sancti Testimonio (1734): — Diss. qua Illustre Oraculum Zachariah 6:12, 13 Explanatur (1758): — De Auctore Apocalypaeos (1767), etc. See Diorius, Die gelehrteen Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. s.v. (B.P.)