a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born November 17, 1722, at Leoniberg, Wirtemberg. For some time he acted as professor at the gymnasium in Stuttgart, in 1789 he was pastor at Plochingen, and died December 24, 1807. He is the author of, Historischcritische Nachricht von den sechs ersten teutschen Bibelausgaben, etc. (Stuttgart, 1767): — Litterarische Nachricht von der hochteutschen Bibelubersetzung, etc. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:172; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2:929. (B.P.)