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a Swiss theologian, was born in 1685, became professor at Zurich in 1737, and died in 1756. He introduced more liberal views in his teaching than had been current hitherto, and was often suspected of heresy. See Hagenbach, Hist. of the Church in the 18th and 19th Centuries, 1:113; Frintzsche, Dissertation (Zurich, 1841); Schweitzer, Centraldogmen, 2:791 sq.