a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Marburg, Jan. 25, 1715. He studied in his native place, and when twenty-one years old, he publicly defended his dissertation De Studio Prophetico sobrie Instituendo. After completing his studies, he went to Cassel in 1736, and until the year 1778 he was actively engaged in. pastoral duties. While on a visitation in his function as superintendent and member of consistory, he was paralyzed, and was thus deprived of the power of speech. Although unable to preach, yet he performed the duties connected with his ecclesiastical position, and died Dec. 31,1784. He published, Erklarung des Bries des heiligen, Jakobs (Lemgo, 1754): — Commentatio de Theologo Tempori Serviente (Hersfeldiae, 1755): — Versuch einer feien Uebersetzung der beiden Briefe Petri und der drei Briefe Johannis (Frankfort, 1757): Predsten ü ber wichtige Glaubenswahrheiten und Lebenspfiichten (Cassel, 1780-81, 2 vols.). See Dö ring, Gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 4:551 sq. (B. P.)