a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1584 at Schlackenwald, in Bohemia, was at first court-preacher at Gschwend and Grub, on the borders of Styria, then deacon and-professor of theology and Oriental languages at Altdorf, and died August 28, 1629, leaving Lexicon Syriacum — Exercitationes Hebraicae Quinque: — De Fide Catholica Petri: Gymnasium Syriacum: — Epistola ad Romanos et Titum. Syriaca: — Analysis Nov. Testamenti: — Lingua Samaritana: — Gymnasium Chaldaicum: — Lexicon Chaldaicum: — De Confusione Linguarum, etc. See Steinschneider, Bibliogr. Handbuch, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)