a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born January 12, 1740, at Gorlitz. He studied at Wittenberg, was in 1771 professor of theology and Oriental languages at Revel, in 1777 at Kiel, and died June 15, 1808. He wrote, Dissertationes Tres de usu Patrum (Wittenberg, 1765): — Poetae Graeci Antiquores, Interpretis Sacrarum Litter arum Magistri (ibid. 1768): — De Dubitationibus contra Historiam Reditus Jesu Christi (Kiel, 1778): — Aphorismi Ethici in usum Scholarum (ibid. 1789). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)