Swiss historian, born at Schaffhausen, Switzerland, on the 19th of March 1787. He studied theology at Göttingen and became a minister at Schaffhausen in 1824, but resigned in 1841, and embraced Catholicism in 1844; two years afterward he was appointed historiographer to the Emperor of Austria. Some of his works are Geschichte des Ostgothischen Königs Theodorich und seiner Regierung (1807); Geschichte Kaiser Ferdinands II und seiner Eltern (1862); Geburt und Wiedergeburt (1845). He died at Gratz on the 27th of August 1865.
