a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born January 1, 1715. He studied at Rostock, where he also commenced his academical career in 1739. In 1748 he took the degree of doctor of divinity, by presenting De Actu Reprobis, Vero Redemptionis Christi Objecto, and died November 6, 1795. He published also, De Vaticinio Simeonis Luke 12:34-35 (Rostock, 1744): — Vindiciae Exegeseos Dicti 2 Petri, 2:1 (ibid. 1754): — Progr. Argumentorum ad Probandum pro impoenitentia Finali Praestitam Satisfactionem ab Uri versalitate Gratiae et Meriti Christi Desumtorum (ibid. eod.): — Jesus Nazarenus, Verus Messias (ibid. 1757): — Specimen Chronologiae Biblicae (ibid. 1771): — Progr. quo ad Institutum Greisbachii Textum N.T. Graecum Mutandi Quaedam Exponit (ibid. 1775). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:440. (B.P.)