a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Heilsberg, Weimar, April 14, 1761, and died at Jena, April 10, 1812, doctor and professor of theology. He published, Philosophische Dogmatik im Grundrisse (Jena, 1796): — Versuch einer Moralphilosophie (1790-98, 2 volumes; 4th ed. 1802-3): — De Theologia Biblica (1788): — Adiaphora philosophisch, theologisch und historisch untersucht (1809). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:284, 288, 292, 294, 486, 761; 2:94. (B.P.)