CHRISTOPHER, was born in 1638, at Smalcald in Franconia, of which town his father was minister. He took a doctor's degree at Jena, and was professor of Hebrew and moral philosophy at Weissenfels. He was afterwards rector of the colleges at Weimar, Zeitz, and Merseburg; and ultimately became professor of rhetoric and history in the college of Halle, founded by the king of Prussia. In this latter place he composed the greater part of his works. His great application to study hastened the infirmities of old age, and brought on his death in 1707.

His principal works are: I. Philologicae, Antiquitates Latinae, Cizre, 1677; Orthographiae Latinae, Jena, 1704; Opera posteriora de Barbarismis, &c., Sermones Latini, Jena, 1709; Grammatica Hebraica, Jena, 1709; Chaldaicae, Cizre, 1685; Rabbinicae, ibid., 1684; Linguae Arabicae, ibid., 1678; Porta Syriæ, et Porta Syriæ posterior, Cizre, 1682. II. Historical: Historia Antiqua, Cizre, 1685; Historia Medii Aëri, ibid., 1688; Historia Nova, Halae, 1696. III. Geographical: Notitia orbis antiqui, Lips., 1701-1708; Geographiae antiquae, Jena, 1691; et novæ, ibid., 1709.