a German Protestant minister, was born in 1766 at Gotha. In 1790 he was appointed minister at Drakendorf, near Jena; in 1797 subdeacon at Altenburg; in 1805 archdeacon; in 1806 first pastor and superintendent at Ronneburg, and in 1824 member of consistory. In 1836 he retired from the ministry, and died in 1843. He wrote: Ueber allgemeine Union der christl. Bekenntnisse (Neustadt, 1829): — Symboloklasmus oder Symbolatrie? (ibid. 1831): — Ueber Consistorialverfassung in der deutsch- protestantischen Kirche (ibid. 1831): — Glaube u. Vernunft in ihren Verzweigungen (ibid. 1843), etc. See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2, 1188; Regensburger Real-Encyklop. s.v. (B.P.)