a Lutheran theologian and philosopher of Germany, was born in 1760 at Oeftenhifen, near Rostock. He studied at Rostock and Halle, was in 1792 professor at Halle, and died October 7, 1837. He published, Einzig moglicher Zweck Jesu aus dem Grundgesetze der Religion entwickelt (2d ed. Halle, 1793): — Versuch einer Kritik der Religion (1790): — Censur des christlichen protestantischen Lehrbegriffs nach den Prinzipien der Religionskritik (Berlin, 1791-95, 3 parts; 2d ed. 1796): — De Modo Deum Cognoscendi (1792): — Dilucidationes ad Theoreticam Religionis Christianae Partem (1793, 2 parts): — Religion der Miindigen (1800, 2 parts). See Krug, Philosophisches Warterbuch, 4:173 (2d ed. 4:197); Baur, Vorlesungen uber Dogmengeschichte, 3:336 sq.; Gass, Gesch. der prot. Dogmatik, 4:300 sq.; Punjer, Geschichte der Religions philosophie, 2:52 sq.; Plitt-Herzog, Real-Encyclop. s.v. (B.P.)