a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born September 22, 1806, at Konigsbach, Baden. He studied at Tubingen; was in 1833 preacher at Wilhelmsdorf, Wurtemberg; in 1842 at Hochstetten, Baden; in 1852 at Wdssingen, near Durlach, and died at Eppingen, December 1, 1861. He published, Wie und wodurch is Martin Luther der grosse Bibel- Uebersetzer geworden? (Stuttgart, 1835): — Jubel-Buchlein der evangelishen Reformation in Wurtemberg (ibid. 1836): — Die augsburgische Confession erklart (Carlsruthe, 1842): — Evangelischer Cofirmations-Unterricht (1850): — Was thut unserer Kirche noth? (1843): — Die Bibel als das Wort des lebendigen Gottes an die Menschheit (1855). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:788; 2:303; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2:851; Koch, Gesch. des deutschen Kirchenliedes, 7:302 sq. (B.P.)