Christoph Bernhard Crusen

Christoph Bernhard Crusen (born December 15, 1676 in Brinkum , † November 29, 1744 in Bremen ) was a German pastor and general superintendent in Harburg and then superintendent at the Bremen Cathedral .

Life

Crusen was the son of the Protestant pastor Christoph Crusen (1639–1676) in Brinkum . His stepfather, also a pastor, taught him. From 1686 he attended the Evangelical Lutheran cathedral school in Bremen and from 1690 the Athenaeum Bremen. From 1693 he studied among other things theology at the University of Rostock and from 1695 at the University of Helmstedt . In 1697 he was in Holland and then Hofmeister (private tutor) in England . In 1698 he took over the position of secretary to the envoy from the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in London . From 1703 he was pastor, first in the women's monastery in Medingen , then in 1710 he was appointed superintendent in Dannenberg . In 1724, King George I of Hanover appointed him general superintendent in Harburg , and then in 1725 as the successor to Gerhard Meier (1664–1723) as superintendent at Bremen's St. Petri Cathedral. He died after a stroke that he suffered in the church pulpit. His grave was in the north transept in Bremen Cathedral together with his wife Sophie Gertrud Riecke (1687–1743), the daughter of a bailiff.

Works

Crusen wrote a number of theological and biographical writings and corresponded with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

literature

• Adolf E. Hofmeister: Christoph Bernhard Crusen u. a., in: Blätter der "Maus", booklet 30, Die Gräber im Bremer St. Petri Dom, Episode 18, Bremen 2005, S. 11-26 (with portrait and family table).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See also the entry of Cristoph Bernhard Crusen's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal