a Reformed theologian of Germany, was born at Liebenberg, Prussia, March 16, 1716, and studied at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. In 1738 he was assistant preacher at Jerichau, in 1744 at Soldin, in 1748 professor at Duisburg, in 1749 at Frankfort, and died March 27, 1781, doctor of theology. He published, Commentatio Historico-Critica de Librorum, Novi Testamenti Canone (Frankfort, 1755): — De Ecclesia Divinam Bibliormi Inspirationem Testante (1751): — De Septem Domini Oculis Perlustrantibus Totam Terram ex Zachar. 4:10 (1751): — De Revelatione Divina Ante Mosen Scripto Consignata (1752): — Introductio in Theologiami Dogmaticam (1778): — Institutio Theologiae Dognmaticae (1779). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; First, Bibl. Jud. s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:77, 292, 305, 394, 535. (B.P.).