a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Rostock, October 6, 1671. He studied at his native place and at Greifswalde, commenced his academical career in 1696 at Rostock, was in 1701 doctor, in 1704 professor of theology, and died February 11, 1713, leaving, Systema Novissimarum Controversiarum (Rostock, 1705): — Historia. Literaria Talinudis Babyonici (ibid. 1696): — De Carthesii Methodo Convincendi Atheos: — De Quibusdam Locutionibus in Critica Edu. Leighi: — De Victore ab Edom ad Es. 63:1-6: — An Talmud sit Cremendum?: — An Circumcisio ab AEgyptiis ad Abrahamum Fuerit Derivafa? See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:343; Furst, Bibl. Theol. 1:342; Steinschneider, Bibl. Handbuch, s.v. (B.P.)