a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born February 19, 1752, at Pressath, in the Upper Palatinate. In 1784 he was appointed pastor at Berg, near Landshut; in 1801 he was called to Landshut as professor, where he died, May 27, 1809, leaving, Predigten (Munich, 1786, 1802): — Homilien uber die sonntaglichen Evangelien (ibid. 1789; 4th ed. 1829). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:139; Doring, Die deutschen Kanzelredner des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, page 84 sq. (B.P.)