a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Stuttgart, March 8, 1717. He studied at Tiibingen, and was appointed professor there in 1748. In 1767 he was made member of consistory and abbot of Alpirsbach. He died at Stuttgart, March 18, 1779, leaving, De Naturalismo Morali. (Tubingen, 1752): — De Anima Legum (ibid.): — De Principe Christiano (ibid. 1753): — De Miraculis Christi (ibid. 1764): — Meletema Philosophicum (ibid. 1765): — De Diverssis Fontibus Tolerantiae (ibid. 1769): — Theologia Dogmatica (Stuttgart, 1780). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1:392 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:685; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)