a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born January 1, 1693, at Chemnitz. He studied at Leipsic and Wittenberg, was in 1717 adjunct to the philosophical faculty at the latter place, in 1724 professor of philosophy, in 1725 superintendent at Sayda, in Saxony, and died January 16, 1770. He wrote, De Libro7 Recti ad Joshua 10:15 (Leipsic, 1714): — De ἀυλήταις ad Matthew 9:23 (1717): — De Vita, Fama, et Scriptis Val. Weigelii (1721): — De Plagis Magnis Pharaonis ad Genesis 12:17 (1724): — De Canonica Libri Esther Auctoritate (Wittenberg, 1729): — De Augustana Conffessione Nonna Concionum Sacrarum Secunduaria (1733). See Dietmann, Chursachsische Priester; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:775; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:394. (B.P.)