a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Iglau, Hungary, November 19, 1707. He studied at Jena, was in 1730 conrector at Leutschau, Hungary, in 1742 rector at Osnabruck, in 1749 professor at Rinteln, and died November 13, 1786, doctor of theology. He published, Trias Observationum Grammaticarum (Osnabruck, 1744): — Prolegomena de Praecipuis Nominibus Dei (1771): — Annorum Vitae Tharahhi et Abrahami (1773),etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschland, s.v. (B. P.)