a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born November 25, 1665. He studied at Altdorf and Leipsic, was pastor in 1686, and died July 26, 1715, leaving, De Principiorum Moralium Existentia, Definitione et Divisione (1683): — De Astrologia Judiciaria (1685): — Heilige Unterredungen mit Gott (1689): — Enchiridion Catechismi Lutheri contra Papistas (1703), besides a number of ascetical works. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:166; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)