a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born August 21, 1758. He studied at Leipsic, was in 1787 rector at the cathedral-school at Riga in 1791 first pastor there, and in 1799 assessor of the Livese consistory. In 1803 he was general superintendent and president of the superior consistory, and. died July 17, 1827. He published, Diss. de Jesu Siracide, Ecclesiastico noin Libro, sed Libri Fatmragine (Riga, 1792), besides a number of ascetical, liturgical, and homiletical works. See Doring, Die gelehrten Kanzelredner, pages 457-462; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:835; 2:92, 164, 167- 173, 177, 296, 328, 370. (B.P.)