a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Gossleben, in Thuringia, in 1615, and died April 14, 1669, pastor primarius and general superintendent at Alefeld, in Hildesheim, leaving, Disputatio de Trinitate (Rinteln, 1654): — De Praedestinatione (ibid. 1655): — De Natura et Principio Theologiae (ibid. 1657): — De Sacramentis in Genere, et in Specie de Baptismo et Eucharistia (ibid. 1660): — De Peccati Origine (ibid. 1661): — De Spiritu (ibid. 1662): — De Divinitate Christi contra Photinianos (ibid. 1664): — De Vera et Reali Corporis et Sanguinis Christi in Eucharistia Praesentia (ibid. 1669). See Dollen, Lebenbeschreibung der Rinfelschen Prof. Theol.; Strieders, Hessische Gelehrten Geschichte; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)