Carl Wilhelm Cruse
Carl Wilhelm Cruse (born September 25, 1765 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † March 22, 1834 in Mitau ) was a Reformed preacher and historian.
Life
His father was Friedrich Jakob Cruse, his mother Henrietta Philippina, geb. Stritzel. In 1802 he married Luise Gertrude Kupffer, from the Zabeln pastorate . He was the father of the pharmacologist Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Cruse .
From 1791 he was cabinet secretary to Duke Peter von Kurland and from 1792 to 1794 teacher of the Kurland princesses in Würzau (Kurland). From 1799 Cruse worked as a professor of history at the grammar school academicum (from 1804 grammar school illustrious) in Mitau, the Academia Petrina and was vice-rector in 1801/02 .
From 1802 he was also a preacher of the Reformed community. In 1815 he met as a co-founder of the Courland Society for Literature and Art . In 1819 he opposed promoting the Germanization of Latvians.
Publications
- Comments from a citizen of the world about the change that made 1817 strange in the yearbooks of Courland
- Curland among the dukes
- Ceremonial address on the birthday of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas I: at the celebration of the third secular festival of the handover of the Augsburg confession the 25th Julius A.St. 1830 in the large lecture hall of the Gymnasii illustris in Mitau
- Occasional letter announcing the course at the Gymnasio illustri in Mitau for the year 1816.
- Courland's fate
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Karl Wilhelm Cruse. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Literature by and about Carl Wilhelm Cruse in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cruse, Carl Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cruse, Karl Wilhelm; Cruse, Carl W .; Cruse, Karl W .; Cruse, CW |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Courland preacher and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1834 |
| Place of death | Mitau |