Georg Cruciger

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Georg Cruciger (also Creutziger ; born September 24, 1575 in Merseburg , † July 8, 1637 in Kassel ) was a German Reformed theologian , philosopher and university professor .

Life

Cruciger was the son of the Wittenberg theology professor Caspar Cruciger the Younger and grandson of the married couple Caspar Cruciger the Elder and Elisabeth Cruciger . Since his father was dismissed as a "cryptocalvinist" in 1574 and expelled from Saxony in 1576, he grew up in Kassel from 1578 on. He received his first education in his parents' house. In 1595 he went to the High School in Herborn , where he stayed for two years before he was matriculated at the University of Heidelberg on April 12, 1598 after stints at the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig . After completing his studies, he got a job as a teacher at the court school in Kassel from Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel in 1600 .

Cruciger followed a call as a full professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Marburg . There he held his inaugural lecture on September 1, 1605 and was awarded a master's degree on December 19, 1605 in absentia , as he had to undergo an operation during this time. He was inducted into office on March 18, 1606. On September 1, 1618 , the theological faculty of his university awarded him a doctorate in theology , and he was also sent to the Synod of Dordrecht . Despite being posted, he was rector of the University of Marburg in 1618 and 1619 and, in 1619, deputy of the University of Marburg to the state parliament in Marburg. In addition, from October 14, 1619 he was a scholarship holder of the Marburg scholarship institution .

Cruciger was able to transfer the professorship of theology and Hebrew language, which he took up in January 1620, through the newly acquired doctorate on September 30, 1619. When there were inheritance and denominational disputes between Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt and the Marburg University fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and became Lutheran, he was suspended on March 17, 1624 for disregarding orders and on June 13, 1625 expelled from Marburg . He then lived in Hanau for a few years .

When Landgrave Wilhelm V of Hessen-Kassel established the Calvinist University of Kassel , he appointed Cruciger as professor of theology, the Hebrew language and philosophy at the new university in June 1629. At this university he was dean of the theological faculty in 1631 and rector of the university in 1637.

Cruciger was married to Christina Scharpff († September 9, 1639 in Kassel), a daughter of the Marburg court attorney and notary, Conrad Scharpff, since 1606. The marriage had a daughter and seven sons.

Works (selection)

  • Centuria II. Thesium et Antithesium in qua ardua illa de controversiarum theolog.judice proponitur questio , Kassel 1603.
  • Harmonia linguarum quatuor cardinalium, hebraicae, graecae, latinae et germanicae. In qua praeter summum earum consensum ... , Frankfurt am Main 1616.
  • De natura Logices, organicorum intellectualium habituum reginae ac dominae , Kassel 1633.

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer History from the Reformation to the Present Times , Volume 2, Barmeier, Göttingen 1782, pp. 454–456.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willem van Irhoven (ed.): Canones Synodi nationalis Dordracenae, ofte Oordeel des Synodi nationalis der Gereformeerde Kercken van de Vereenigde Nederlanden: ghehouden in Dordrecht, inden jare 1618 end 1619 . J. H. Vonk van Lynden, Utrecht 1752, pp. 23, 40, 68 and 95 ( Google Books ).
personal data
SURNAME Cruciger, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Creutziger, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian, philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1637
Place of death kassel