a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born December 13, 1530, at Hamburg. He studied at Wittenberg, was in 1557 professor of theology and pastor at Greifswalde, in 1562 superintendent and first-preacher at Brandenburg, and died Jan. 22, 1575. He wrote, De Erigendis Figuris Caeli (Wittenberg, 1556): — De S. Laurentio Martyre (ibid. 1562): — De S. Joanne Baptista (ibid. eod.): — De Magis ex Oriente (ibid. eod.): — De S. Martino Episcopo Turonensi (ibid. 1563): — Confessio Orthodoxa de Spiritu'Sancto (1565): De Infanticidio Herodis (ibid. eod.):-Collatio saumi Pontificis V. et N.T. (Leipsic, 1574). See Thiess, Hamburg Gelehrten- Lexikon; Jocher, Allgeneines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)