a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was borni in 1766 at Birnfeld. He performed his first ministerial functions at Wurzburg, but soon after the outbreak of the French Revolution he was persecuted and deposed from his office. He died Sept. 24, 1797; as chaplain at Hausen, near Fahrbruick, in the Wurzburg diocese. He is the author of, Erbanuungsbuch fir Katholiken (Frankfort-on-the-Maine, 1793): — Sermons (8 vols., Erfurt and Leipsic, 17951801; some volumes were edited by Laubender). See Doring, Die Gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1, 54; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. ii, 145, 150. (B. P.)