a Lutheran theologian, was born at Ratzeburg, October 22, 1733. He studied at Rostock. In 1762 he was preacher of the Lutheran Church at Amsterdam, in 1764 was called to Breda, and in 1775 accepted a call to the Hague. Rutz died December 31, 1802, leaving, Non Placet Nobis Orthodoxia sine Pietate, nec Pietas sine Orthodoxia (Amsterdam, 1777): — Exegetische und kritische Briefe (1779): — Kleine Bydragen tot de deistische Letterkunde (Hague, 1782): — Apologie van het Leeraarampt (1784), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)