a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Hamburg, and studied at Rostock. In 1577 he was appointed deacon of St. Peter's, in his native city, where he died, December 11, 1604. He is the editor of a Polyglot Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and German, which was issued at Hamburg in 1595. Besides, he published Neu-Catechismus Gesangbuchlein (ibid. 1598), in which some of his own hymns are given. See Le Long-Masch, Bibliothecac Sacra, 1:387; J. Molleri, Cimbria Literata (Havniae, 1744), 1:740 sq.; Koch, Gesch. d. deutschen Kirchenliedes, 2:296 sq. (B.P.)