a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Gera, September 30, 1666. He studied at Wittenberg, was in 1690 deacon at Torgau, in 1696 court- preacher at Dresden, in 1722 member of consistory, and took the degree as doctor of theology in 1724. He died August 1, 1734, leaving, Diss. de Lituriis Orientalibus (Wittenberg, 1724): — De S. Eucharistia Moribundis et Mortuis Olinmn Datat (1690): — Annales Ecclesiasticae (Dresden, 1730, 3 parts), etc. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:602, 632, 800; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:336; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)