Jacob Crusius

Jakob Crusius (actually Jakob Kruse ; * in Rostock ; † April 9, 1597 in Ribnitz ) was a German Lutheran theologian . As superintendent of Stralsund , he campaigned for the free development of the church community.

Life

After studying at the University of Rostock , Jakob Crusius was initially court preacher at the Pomeranian duke's court in Wolgast . From October 17, 1563 he was pastor at St. Mary's Church in Greifswald . Associated with this was a professorship in theology at the University of Greifswald , of which he was rector in 1565/1566.

In 1570 he went to Stralsund , where he was pastor of the Nikolaikirche and took over the office of superintendent. In this position he got into a long-standing argument with the general superintendent Jacob Runge . On the one hand it was about the privilege desired by the city of having its own Stralsund consistory with a high pastor who was independent from the general superintendent and on the other hand it was about the resistance against the concord formula and the striving of the community for greater independence from the sovereign church regime . Crusius was one of the opponents of the common practice in Pomerania of parish widow care .

At a synod in Wolgast in 1581, 40 of his theses were condemned, which was confirmed by a meeting of theologians in Stettin in 1583 . In his work Report of Four Pieces , which he enclosed with a petition to Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pommern in 1583, he fought against the catechism introduced by Runge . The conflict reached its climax in 1585 with the publication of his book Church Regiment and Church Order Donated by God . Finally, Jakob Crusius was at the Pomeranian Synod in Barth in 1586 at the instigation of the Duke, who sided with Runge, as a "conflict stirer" and because of "violation of the office and the power due to the Christian princes and the Christian authorities" from the Dismissed office and expelled from the country.

Jakob Crusius then traveled via Lübeck to Riga , from where he tried in vain to be able to return to Pomerania. Finally he took over a pastor's position in Ribnitz , Mecklenburg , where he died in 1597.

Fonts

• Report of four pieces. 1583
• Church regiment and church order donated by God. After a healthy reading of our time Symbolorum and Patrum, again D. Jacob Rungen, his papist and false counter-doctrine, of the two pieces mentioned, sampled a number of causes, why the first is from God, but the Rungish is not. Ursel 1585

See also

• List of the rectors of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald

literature

• Adolf Häckermann:  Crusius, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 631 f.
• Maciej Ptaszyński: Kruse, Jakob (died 1597) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 193–197.

Web links

• Literature about Jakob Crusius in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Jakob Crusius' matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal .
2. ^ Hanna Würth: Parish widow care in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from the Reformation to the 20th century. Dissertation to obtain a doctorate, accepted by: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , Philosophical Faculty, April 20, 2004, p. 177, digitized version ( PDF ; 20 MB).
3. ↑ Johann Michael Reu (Ed.): Sources on the history of ecclesiastical teaching in the Protestant Church in Germany between 1530 and 1600. Vol. I / 3,1a; Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1927 (reprinted by Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1976), ISBN 3487061279 , pp. 284–285.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jacob Runge	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1565/1566	Bernhard Macht