Eduard Crusius

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Children from 3rd marriage and ancestors of Eduard Crusius

Gottlob Friedrich Eduard Crusius (born July 11, 1797 in Lichtenstein, Saxony , † July 19, 1861 in Immenrode near Goslar ) was a German Lutheran pastor , writer and historian .

Life

Gottlob Friedrich Eduard Crusius came from a Saxon family of pastors and cantors that goes back to the Latin school principal and pastor Balthasar Crusius (1550-1630). He was the youngest son of the cantor and teacher Gottlob Leberecht Crusius (1749–1813) and his wife Christiane Sophia nee. Matthesius (1757-1839). Like his older brothers, the Latin school teacher Gottlob Christian Crusius (1785–1848) and the consistorial officer Otto Crusius (1794–1861), Eduard Crusius also emigrated to the Electorate of Hanover , attended the Lyceum in Hanover and studied theology at the University of Göttingen from 1818 on . After the usual private tutoring, Crusius began his theological career as a collaborator in Brinkum near Bremen . In 1825 he received a pastor's position in Eberholzen (Hildesheim district), where he married the pastor's daughter Henriette Wilhelmine Dony (1809-1828), with whom he had two daughters. After the early death of his wife, he married Johanne Caroline Dorothea Henneberg, with whom he had another daughter; however, both left him after a few years. In 1834 Crusius obtained divorce by court with the consent of the Hanover consistory.

In 1837 Crusius, now a single father with two daughters, took up a pastor's post in Immenrode near Goslar . There he married his niece (the eldest daughter of his brother Wilhelm in Lichtenstein) Johanna Theresia Crusius (1815-1894) the following year, with whom he lived in harmony until his death. The couple had nine more children, six of whom reached adulthood.

Eduard Crusius used his artistic and literary talents to gain additional income to support his family. He published Christian school and devotional books as well as verses in the tradition of Johann Heinrich Voss . In addition, he dealt intensively with the history of the country and published numerous articles on it. His main work, the history of the former imperial free imperial city of Goslar am Harze (1842), was based on years of source studies and was reprinted in 1978.

In 1983, a street in Crusius' home town of Immenrode was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Christian psalm booklet. A gift for confirmands . Hanover 1835
  • The visit to Hainthal. An idyll . Hamburg 1839
  • Bethany. A biblical family painting . Hanover 1840
  • Christian morning consecration. In chants . Osterode 1842
  • Christ's cross. A poem . Goslar and Osterode 1842
  • History of the former imperial free imperial city of Goslar am Harze . Osterode 1842. Reprint Hanover 1978
  • Festive catechism or short lessons in questions and answers about the Christian church year and its holy days. For Protestant elementary schools. Hanover 1843.
  • Holy songs. Festival for eager children. Einbeck and Osterode 1843.
  • The engagement. A rural poem in 8 idylls. Sondershausen 1844.
  • Stories for the formation of the child's mind. A Christmas present for children. Osterode 1847.
  • Forty fables for children. Along with an encore from his poems. Osterode 1851.
  • The engagement. A rural poem in eight idylls . Sondershausen 1844
  • Brief Christian religious teaching for children in easy-to-remember verses of songs and small chants, arranged according to the sections of the Hanoverian catechism . 1851
  • Forty fables for children. In addition to an encore of small poems . Osterode 1851
  • Old and New Testament Biblical Stories for Schools . 5th edition, Einbeck 1855. 7th edition 1864

literature

  • Irene Crusius : Atlas Crusius - Mayor in difficult times. The city of Chemnitz after the Thirty Years War . Chemnitz 2004, p. 121
  • Irene Crusius: GF Eduard Crusius (1797-1861), country pastor, public teacher and author of a town history of Goslar , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, new edition of the "Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony", published by the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, Volume 91, 2019

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Crusius, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crusius, Gottlob Friedrich Eduard (full name); Crusius, Gottlieb Friedrich Eduard (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenstein / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1861
Place of death Immenrode (Goslar)