a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Gottingen, August 11,1685. In 1712 he was rector at Bergen, in 1728 pastor at Osterweddingen, near Magdeburg, and died in 1744. He wrote, Anweisung zum Studiren aus Lutheri Schriften gezeigt (Magdeburg, 1727): — Anweisung zur Hermeneutik aus Lutheri Schriften (ibid. eod.): — Melanchthoniana (Helmstadt, 1730): — Introductio in Bibliothecam Graecam J.A. Fabricii (Magdeburg, 1733): — Introductio in ejusden Bibliothecam Latinam (ibid. 1734). See Mosers, Jetztlebende Theologen; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)