a Swiss Protestant theologian, was born in 1783. He was professor of theology at Geneva from 1817 to 1865, and died Feb. 5,,1871, leaving, Lettres sur Etat A ctrel de l'Eglise de Geneve (1817): — Causes qui Retardenzt chez les Reformes les Proagres de la Theologie (1819):-Essais Theoilogiques (1831-34): — De la Divine Autorift des Ecirivains et des Heros du Nouveau 'Testament (1850). After the English translation of Michaelis's Introduction, he published L'Introduction au. Nouveau Testament . (1822, 4 vols.). His sermons, delivered at Geneva from 1822' to 1846, were published in 1855. See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religietuses, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 433, 812; Zuchold, Bibl. Theolog. i, 221. (B. P.)