professor of Hebrew, was a native of Posen, where he was born in 1623. He embraced Christianity at Dantzic, Jan. 22, 1657. Two years later he was appointed professor of the Oriental languages at the gymnasium there, and died July 1, 1683. He wrote Demonstrationes XXXVIII contra Judoeos (Frankfort, 1660): — Programma Hebr. ad A udiendam Orationem Hebr. de Proestantia et Utilitate Lingua Hebr. (Dantzic, 1666): — Programma de Jubiloeis Hebroeorum (ibid. 1658, etc.). See Furst, Bibl. Judaica, 2, 97; 3, 229; Steinschneider, Bibliograph. Handbuch, p. 123; id. Catalogus Librorum Hebr. in Bibl. Bodl. p. 2397; Wolf, Bibl. Hebri, 480; Delitzsch, Wissenschaft, Kunst und Judenthum, p. 139, 301; Basnage, Histoire des Juifs (Taylor's transl.), p. 735. (B.P.)