Professor at the Ducal College at Deux- Ponts and member of the Societas bipontius, which began in 1779 to publish a series of the Greek and Latin classics.

Editor, with Friedrich Christian Exter, of an edition of Plato, Platonis philisophi quae exstant, published in eleven volumes (1781-87).

Author of L’idolatrie de ce siècle philosophique: première idole: la paix perpetuelle: ouvrage traduit de l’allemand (Mannheim, 1779).