a Roman Catholic divine, was born Feb. 9, 1770, at Neumarkt, in Bavaria. In 1802 he was appointed professor of catechetics at Salzburg; in 1805 professor of philosophy at Landshut; in 1808 he was called to Innspruck, and in 1810 to Salzburg again, where he died, May 28, 1856. At first he belonged to the Kantian philosophical school, but soon became converted to that of Schelling. He wrote, Der Transcendentalismus in seiner drei. fachen Steigerung (Munich, 1805): — Die Idee des Organismus (ibid. 1806): — Handbuch der Vorbereitung zum selbststü ndigen wissenschaftlichen Studium (ibid. 1807, 2 vols.): — Darstellung der absoluten Identititslehre (ibid. 1810): — Logische Aphorismen (Salzburg, 1811): — Lehr und Handbuch der tuoeoretischen und praktischen Philosophie (ibid. 1811, 2 vols.): — Wissenschaftliche Aphorismen der kathol. Dogmatik (ibid. 1816). See Winer, Handb. der theol. Literatur, 1, 306; 2, 800; Regensburger Real-Encyklop. s.v. (B.P.)