In 1749 he published Einleitung in die Harmonie der Evangelien, and in 1750 was appointed professor extraordinarius of theology. Five years later he became professor ordinarius of logic and metaphysics; in 1759 he exchanged this for a professorship of rhetoric and poetry.
Amongst other theological works he published Dissertationes in Acta Apostolorum (1756-1761); Antiquitales symbolicae (1772); and after his death appeared Observationes in Matthaeum ex Graecis inscriptionibus (1779). He also published a periodical Der Naturforscher (1774-1778), and during the years 1749-1756 took an active part in editing the Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen.
See article in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; also Lebensgeschichte J. E. I. Walch (Jena, 1880), and JG Meusel's Lexikon der verstorbenen teutschen Schriftsteller, vol. xiv.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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