a Protestant theologian. was born at Haina, in Gotha, in 1704. He studied at Jena and Kiel, was appointed at the latter place, in 1735, professor of Oriental languages, in 1742 elected to the chair of Biblical antiquities, and in 1747 to that of theology. He died March 8, 1773. He published, Dissertatio seu Commentatio Solemnis, Comma Secundam Quinti Hoseae Capitis Explicans (Kiloni, 1731): — Progr. de Usu Linguae Ebraece in Philosophia (ibid. 1736): — Diss. de Ritibous Scholasticis Judaorum- (ibid. 1745). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 4:767 sq.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:540. (B.P.)