a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1700 at Nerichau, near Grimma. He studied atWittenberg; was in 1721 magister; in 1729 archidiaconus at Wittenberg; in 1737 doctor of theology there, and died in 1759, leaving .De Antiquitate et Origine Ritus Interrogandi Infantes ante Baptism. (Frankeuhausen, 1729): — De usu Formulae, qua Interroganus Infantes ante Baptismum de Fide (Wittenberg, 1734): — Comm. de Baptismo Adami (ibid. 1747): — De lnterpretatione Prophetiae Propriam Ipsius Scripturam Dissoluente (ibid. 1754, 1757). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 630; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)