a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1726. He was director and professor of theology at the Coburg gymnasium in 1772, and died August 11, 1783, member of consistory. He wrote, Comm. de Calumnia Religiosa et Theologia Civili Veterum Praesertim Romanorum (Coburg, 1749): — De Conatibus Quibusdam Translationes Bibliorum Emendandi (1772): — De Pupyro ad Hiob. 8:11 (eod.): — Explicatio Nova Cladis Bethsemiticae, 1 Samuel 6:19 (3 parts, 1774): — Progr. III ad Genesis 47:24 (1775): — Progr. VI Super Quibusdam Locis Prophetae Hoseae (1776, 1777). See Meusel, Gelehrtes Deutschland; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:362; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)