a German linguist, was born in 1713 at Dresden, and died as professor of Greek and Latin at Leipsic, April 24, 1771. He is the author of, Presbyteror. et Diaconor. Achaiae de Martyrio S. Andrae Epistola Encyclica (Leipsic, 1749): — Progr. de Genuinis Antiquitatum Sacrar. in Primitiva Ecclesia Obviar. Fontib. (ibid. 1745): — Historiola de Synesio Episc. et Evagrio Philos. (ibid. 1758): — Hippolyti Fragmentum ad Proverbs 9:1-5 (ibid. 1762). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:536; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:566, 606, 900. (B.P.)