a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born Dec. 31, 1725, at Hohen- Asperg. He studied at Tubingen, was in 1754 professor and preacher at Behenhausen, in 1761 professor at the gymnasium in Stuttgart,and in 1767 at Tubingen,where he died, July 28, 1775. He wrote, De Limitibus Crea- turarum (Tubingen, 1745): — Oh die Heil. Schriften Dunkel und Zweideutig waren (ibid. 1753): — Versuch einer Kritischen Geschichte der Hebr. Sprache (ibid. cod.): — Vollstandige Einleituny in die Religion und Gesammte Theoloqie (1765-72, 7 vols.): — Diss. de. Origine ac Signifcatione Vocis (ibid. 1767 ): — Diss. de Probanda et non Probanda Trinitate Exodus 1 Job 5:7 (ibid. cod.): — Diss. qua Nexus Verborum Romans 11:5, Vindicatur (ibid. 1771). etc. See Moser. Wurtemb. Gelehrten- Lexikon; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:180; Steinschneider Bibliographisches Handbuch, p. 35; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)