a German theologian, was born at Chemnitz, October 25, 1669. He studied at Wittenberg, was in 1710 professor of theology there, in 1719 provost and member of consistory, and died September 12, 1725. He wrote, Institutiones Exegeticae: — Institutiones Homileticae: — Institutiones Theologice Moralis, and a great many other treatises, enumerated in Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. See also Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)