a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born September 12, 1736, and studied at Altdorf. In 1769 he was preacher at Rasch, in the neighborhood of Altdorf, in 1774 at Word, and died December 14, 1794. Strobel published, Melanchthoniana (Altdorf, 1771): — Nachrichten von den Verdiensten Melanchthon's um die heilige Schrift (1773): — Bibliotheca Melanchthoniana (Nuremberg, 1775; 3d ed. 1782): — Liter ergeschichte von Ph. Melanchthon's Locis Theologicis (1776): — Ph. Melanchthonis Libellus de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis (1780), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:295, 745, 746, 767, 851. (B.P.)