a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Reetz, in the Neumark, January 20, 1568, and died October 5, 1637, at Stettin, being doctor and professor of theology, pastor of St. Mary's, and member of consistory. He wrote, Sana Doctrina de Praedestinatione: — Schola Prophetica: — Arbor Haereticae Consanguinitatis: — Methodus Tractandi Textum Scripturae Sacrae: — Isagoge ad Libros Propheticos et Apostolicos: — Disp. Theol. de Descensu Christi ad Inferos, de Regno Christi, de Quaestione: — an Haeretico sit Fides Servanda: — De Distinguendo Decalogo quod Praeceptorum Numerum, and others. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:721, 764, 807; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)