a Protestant theologian, was born August 10, 1804, at Unterseen, Switzerland. He studied at Berne, was in 1838 vicar at Burgdorf, in 1840 pastor at Buren, and in 1850 professor of theology at Berne. In 1881 he retired from his professorship, and died March 23, 1884. Besides some theological essays and lectures, he published Hermeneutik des Neuen Testaments (Wittenberg, 1873; Engl. translation by A.H. Newman, Andover, 1877): — Neutestamentliche Theologie (Bonn, 1877). (B.P.)