a Lutheran theologian, was born at Langenstein, near Dresden, Saxony, October 16, 1570, and died at Wittenberg, May 30, 1649, doctor and professor of theology. He wrote, Disputationum de Messia Decas: — De Causa Peccati: — Libri iii de Elohim:Vindiciae Ecclesiae Lutheranae contra Valerianum Magnum: — Systema Theologicum: — Collegium Anti-Calvinianum: — Collegium Anti-Photinianum: — Questiones Biblicae in Genesin: — Partitiones et Questiones Metaphysicae: — De Theologiae Constitutione et Verbo Dei Scripto: — Quomodo Sola Fides Justificet. See Witte, Memoriae Theologorum; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)