a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born in Austria in 1764, and died January 5, 1805, professor of ethics and pastoral theology at Linz. He wrote, Theologische Moral in einer wissenschaftlichen Darstellung (Augsburg, 1804, 3 volumes), Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen und popularen Dogmatik (edited by F.X. Geher, Vienna, 1819). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:316; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)