a Lutheran theologian. of Germany, was born at Schlawe, Pomerania, June 17, 1675. He studied at Wittenberg, in 1702 was deacon there, in 1708 pastor at Zerbst, in 1711 doctor of theology, and died April 6, 1744. He published, De Libanio, Nobile Grcecorum Rhetore (Wittenberg, 1699): — De Cultu Dei Adversus Hobbesium, Chaerburg et Spinozaon (1702): — De Mlacario Egyptio (1703): — De Foederibus et Testamentis (1706): — De Precibus Beatorum in Ccelis pro Hominibus in Ternis (1714): — De Lege Moali non Abrogata ex John 1:18 (eod.): — Δικαίωμα τοῦ νόμου ex Romans 8 (1716): — Typus Doctrinae et Theologiae Moralis (1718): — Electa Theologica (1720). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)