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a Protestant theologian of Germany, born at Stuttgart, January 24, 1751, was in 1787 deacon, in 1799 superintendent at Neustadt, in 1814 general superintendent at Heilbronn, and died October 3 of that year. He published, Briefe uber einige theologische Zeitmaterien (Stuttgart, 1797): — Merkwurdigkeiten aus dem Leben und Schriften Hincmars, etc. (Gottingen, 1806): — Worte des Trostes und der Erbauung bei Begrabnissen (Stuttgart, 1799). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:397, 578, 917; 2:388. (B.P.)