Atlas Crusius

Atlas Crusius at the age of 61

Maria Wetzel, 2nd wife of Atlas Crusius, at the age of 44

Atlas Crusius (born December 26, 1606 in Syhra ; † May 15, 1679 in Chemnitz ) was mayor of the city of Chemnitz.

Life

Atlas Crusius was the youngest son of Balthasar Crusius . Presumably he attended the Dresden Kreuzschule , where he enjoyed an excellent musical education as a student and adjuvant . In 1625 he was enrolled at the University of Leipzig .

In 1634 he was appointed cantor and third school colleague in the Latin school in Chemnitz . There he married Maria Steiner on April 12, 1635, the widow of his predecessor, the cantor Elias Greim. She died in 1639. On March 9, 1641, Crusius married Maria Wetzel, the daughter of Hieronymus Wetzel, master baker and church leader of St. Jakobi .

In 1644 he became councilor ( senator ) in Chemnitz and in 1648 city judge ( praetor ). From 1663 to 1675 he was elected mayor (consul) of the city of Chemnitz six times.

His life's work consists in promoting the rebuilding of the city, economy, infrastructure and culture after the turmoil and destruction of the Thirty Years War .

Atlas Crusius died in 1679 and was buried in a grave of honor at the Johanniskirche in Chemnitz "outside of the wall by the small door of the sacristy" . He had two children from his first marriage and four children from his second marriage.

His family list is contained in the family list of his father Balthasar Crusius .

literature

• Irene Crusius : Atlas Crusius - Mayor in difficult times. From the Chemnitz City Archives , Issue 7, Chemnitz 2004, ISBN 3-935534-15-9
• Irene Crusius: Crusius, Atlas . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Irene Crusius: Change of elites in Chemnitz as a result of the Thirty Years' War , in: Uwe Fiedler (ed.): Der Kelch der bittersten Leiden. Chemnitz in the age of Wallenstein and Gryphius , Chemnitz 2008, pp. 85–93.

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