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a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born August 10, 1745. He studied at Halle, was in 1775 appointed pastor of St. Wipert's at Quedlinburg, and died April 12, 1801. He translated R. Simon's Histoire Critique into German, with valuable additions (Halle, 1776-1780), and wrote, Briefe uber Inquisitionsgericht und Ketzerverfolzung (Leipsic, 1785, 2 volumes): — Lebensgeschichte Jesu von Nazareth (ibid. 1787). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1:280 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:9, 74, 765; 2:257, 394. (B.P.)