Professor of theology at the University of Strasbourg. Chaplain to Gustav Philip, count Creutz, the Swedish Ambassador to France. A corresponding member of the Académie des sciences and the Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres. Author of a large variety of works, including: Essai historique et critique des Atlantiques (Paris, 1762); Lettre sur l’origine de l’imprimerie … (Paris, 1761); Oraison funèbre de Louis XV (Paris, 1774); Sermon sur les devoirs des sujets envers leur souverain (Geneva and Paris, 1775); and Receuil des Cantiques (Strasbourg, 1777).

Born in Strasbourg.