a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Nuremberg, March 3,1720. He studied at Altdorf and Halle, was in 1744 afternoon preacher at Nuremberg, in 1745 preacher at Altdorf, in 1752 professor, in 1753 doctor of theology, in 1769 archdeacon, and died February 5, 1771. He wrote, De Genuino Sensu Jeremiah 31:3 (Altdorf, 1753): — De Pauli Praedicantis inter Gentes Evangelium Successibus (1759), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:167, 317, 546, 630, 750; Furst, Bibl. Jud. s.v. (B.P.)