a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Jena, August 29, 1744, and died there April 1, 1798, doctor and professor of theology. He published, Immortalitatis Animorum Doctrina (Jena, 1770): — De Nexu inter Fidem et Virtutem Christianam (1784): — Historia Resurrectionis Christi (eod.): Commentationis, in qua μεσίτου Notio Indagatur, Particulae Tres (1785- 87): — De Consensu Principii Morals Kantiani cum Ethica Christiana (1788): — Verae Nestorii de Unione Naturarum in Christo Sententiae Explicatio (1793): — De Joanne a Jesu Dilecto (1795), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:310, 424, 428, 437, 447, 566, 599; 2:59, 68. (B.P.)