Johannes Crocius

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Johannes Crocius (born July 28, 1590 in Laasphe , † July 1, 1659 in Marburg ) was a Reformed theologian.

origin

Crocius was the son of Paul Crocius (* July 27, 1551; † September 5, 1607), a former tutor of the sons of Counts Nassau-Dillenburg and Wittgenstein-Berleburg and from 1583 pastor and church inspector (superintendent) in Laasphe as well as the editor of the book "Groß Matyrbuch und Kirchenhistorien" (1606), born. His grandfather Matthias Crocius (* 1479; † 1557) had been a pastor in Zwickau and had been personally close to Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . His older brother was Ludwig Crocius (1586–1653 or 1655), professor of theology and philosophy at the Bremen high school Illustre .

career

Crocius studied in Herborn and Marburg. In 1608 he acquired his master's degree , in 1613 he received his doctorate. theol. In 1612 he became court preacher to Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel in Kassel , who left him in 1615/16 to Elector Johann Sigismund von Brandenburg to help introduce Calvinism in his regional church.

In 1617 Crocius became professor of theology , preacher and consistorial councilor in Marburg. However, when Marburg fell (temporarily) to the Lutheran Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1624 , Crocius, like eight other professors, was dismissed by Landgrave Ludwig V of Hesse-Darmstadt when Lutheranism was reinstated at the university for religious reasons and had to be dismissed move to Kassel. Also released were: the theologian Georg Cruciger , the theologian Kaspar Sturm (around 1545–1628), his son, the mathematics professor Christian Sturm (1597–1628), the lawyer Antonius Matthaeus (1564–1637), the logic professor Johannes Combach (1585– 1651), the rhetorician Gregor Schönfeld the Younger (1559–1628), the professor of French and Italian Cathérin Le Doux (Catharinus Dulcis, 1540–1626) and the physician Johannes Molther the Elder. J. (1561-1618). In Kassel, Crocius, Combach and Cruciger received professorships at the Collegium Adelphicum Mauritianum .

In 1631 Crocius took part in the Leipzig Colloquium of Lutheran and Reformed theologians as a member of the Hessian and Kassel region. In 1633 he became rector of the newly founded University of Kassel , in 1653 rector of the reopened Marburg University . Crocius advocated moderate Reformed teaching. The Hessian church order of 1657 is mainly due to him.

Works

  • Erronea dogmata novorum Arianorum in Polonia. Bremen 1612.
  • Conversatio prutenica . Berlin 1618.
  • Anti-Becanus , 2 vols. Kassel 1643.
  • Protestantium pacifer commentarius de Augustanae confessionis societate . Kassel 1647.
  • De ecclesiae unitate et schismate . Kassel 1650.
  • Anti-Weigelius . Kassel 1651.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning P. Jürgens, Thomas Weller (ed.): Religion and mobility: on the relationship between spatial mobility and religious identity formation in early modern Europe . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-10094-3 , p. 396 note 45.
  2. ^ D. Justi: Small contributions to the history of the German university system in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . In: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz (ed.): Year books of history and statecraft. Second volume, Hinrich, Leipzig, 1836, p. 539 .

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personal data
SURNAME Crocius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Laasphe
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1659
Place of death Marburg