a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Michlen, duchy of Nassau, Germany, Aug. 22, 1828. He emigrated to New Orleans in 1846, and in the following spring settled in Louisville, Ky. In 1848 he was converted; in 1850 received license to preach; and six years later entered the travelling connection of the South-west German Conference, and in it continued faithful until 1863, when hemorrhage of the lungs compelled him to retire. He died Aug. 19, 1872. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1872, p. 81.