a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born December 25, 1723, at Buckeburg. He studied at Halle; for some time acted as tutor in the orphanage there; in 747 was appointed morning preacher at his native place, but in the following year accepted a call to Helmstadt; in 1749 became rector at Wolfebuttel, and in 1759 professor of metaphysics at Helmstadt, where he died, May 28, 1767. He wrote, Meditationes Philosophicae et Theologicae (Lemgo, 1744): — Commentatio Theologica (Helmstidt, 1748): — De Foedere Baptismali (ibid. 1749): — Theologisches Compendium (Halle, 1759): — Gedanken uber den Skepticismus (Braunschweig, 1767). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1:341 sq.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)