a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Lubeck in 1647. He studied at different universities, became preacher of St. Laurence, in his native place, in 1673, was suspended in 1692 on account of his great zeal, and disobedience against the magistrate, and died, as a private scholar, in 1708. He was a voluminous writer. See Seelen, Athenae Lubecenses; Moller, Cimbsia Litterata; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:567. (B.P.)