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a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born April 19, 1791, at Baumersroda, near Freiburg. He studied at Wittenberg, and in 1812 commenced his lectures on moral philosophy there. In 1817 he was called to Rostock as professor of theology, but in the following year went to Leipsic as successor of Keil, and died January 8, 1824. He wrote, Doctrina Judaeorum de Praexistentia Animarum (Wittenberg, 1810): — Ueber den Mysticismus in der Philosophie (ibid. 1811): — Systematische Darstellung der Moral der Apokryphen des Alten Testaments (Leipsic, 1814): — De Sacra Librorum V.T. Auctoritate (ibid. 1819): — Progr. de Bibliologia in Sacris N.T. Libris Proposita (ibid. 1822, 1823): — Vorlesungen uber die christl. Dogmatik (ed. by Nabe, ibid. 1829). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1:283; Winer, Handbuch der theol.Lit. 1:239, 294, 302, 310, 430; 2:200; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:248. (B.P.)