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[German Version] (Nov 20, 1736, Lauban, Silesia [today Lubań, Poland] – Nov 11, 1792, Leipzig), son of a choirmaster and Gymnasium teacher in the Upper Lusatian town of Lauban. He began his university studies at Leipzig in 1754, receiving his master's degree in 1760. In 1768 he was appointed associate professor and in 1771 professor of Greek and Latin; in this position he edited many editions of the classics. In 1782 he succeeded J.A. Ernesti as professor of theology. He based his lectures on Ernesti's New Testament hermeneutics, which he built on with the distinction between sensus and sign…

[German Version] (Aug 4, 1707, Tennstädt – Sep 11, 1781, Leipzig) was considered by his contemporaries an enlightened philologist, theologian, and pedagogue, a second “Praeceptor Germaniae” (J.S. Semler). He was the son of the superintendent of Tennstädt, pupil of the prince's school in Pforta, and student in Wittenberg and Leipzig. At first co-rector, after 1734, he was the rector of the Thomas School in Leipzig, where he wrote the Initia doctrinae solidioris addressed to C. Wolff as well as various school regulation…