a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born March 5, 1728, and died at Leipsic, October 25, 1786, doctor and professor of theology. He wrote, Exercitationes Historico-criticca in Utrumque Samaritanorum Pentateuchum (Wittenberg, 1756): — Jesus Talgumicus (Torgau, 1758- 59, 2 parts): — De Disputatione Vinariensi et Restitutione Cantabrigiensi (1760): — De Unctione Pontificis Magni Hebraeorum per Crucem (1756): — De Scalinzis Hebraeorum (1755): — Martyrium Stephani e Pandectis Hebraeorum Illustratum (1756): — De Resurrectione Jobi (1759): — Vaticinium Iesaiae de Tumulo Jesu Commentatio Super Ies. 21:11, 12 (1760): — Observationes Criticae de Masora Scripturae Sacrae Veteris Testamenti Polyglotta (1754). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:98, 435, 760; Furst. Bibl. Jud. s.v. Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)