a German doctor and professor of theology, was born May 8, 1747, at Wertheim. From 1783 he was professor at Giessen; in 1786 he was made first preacher and superintendent of the Alsfeld diocese, and died Jan. 26, 1806. He wrote, Scholia in Vet. Test. (Norimb. 1797): — Psalmus 49 Varietatibus Lectionis Observationibusque Philologicis Illustratus (Gottingen, 1769, 1771, 2 pts.): — De Ellpsibus Hebraicis, etc. (Lips. 1782-93): — Der 2te Brief Pauli an die Korinther (Halle, 1785, tc.). See Winer, Hand-buch der theol. Literatur. 2, 769; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 295 sq.; Steinschneider, Bibliograph. Handbuch, p. 130. (B.P.)