a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born September 28, 1790, at Jena, where he also pursued his theological studies. In 1815 he commenced his academical career there, was in 1817 professor, and was drowned in the Saale, July 1, 1818. He published, De Notione, quam Jesus Verbo Tribuerit (Jena, 1813): — Paraphrasis in Evangelii Johannis 13-17 (1814): — Beitrage zum Vervolkonmmung der Hermeneutik, insbesondere der des Neuen Testanments (1818). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:107, 249, 395. (B.P.)