a German doctor of theology and professor of history, was born June 19, 1736, at Canstadt, in Wirtemberg. For some time he labored as deacon at Vaihingen, and in 1777 he was called to Tubingen, where he died, March 20, 1821. He wrote, Lehrbegriff der christl. Kirche in den ersten Jahrunderten (Frankft.-on-the-Main, 1775): — De Philosophia Vet. Ecclesioe de Spiritu et de Mundo (Tubingen, 1783): — Bibliothek der Kirchenvater in Uebersetzungen u. Auszugen, etc. (Leips. 1776-86). See Winer, Handbuch de theol. Literatur, 1, 594, 598, 876; 2, 738. (B.P.)