a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Erfurt, February 8, 1765. He studied at his native city and Gottingen, was in 1789 catechist, in 1790 professor, and accepted a call in 1803 as general superintendent and member of consistory to Heiligenstadt, in Prussia. In 1816 he went back to Erfurt, was in 1817 senior of the ministry and superintendent of the Erfurt diocese, and died August 26, 1823. His publications are few and of little value. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:236. (B.P.)