Martin Crugot

Martin Crugot (born January 5, 1725 in Bremen , † September 5, 1790 in Carolath ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Martin Crugot comes from a Huguenot family . His grandfather was the mayor of Heidelberg , but the family had to flee in 1688 when the French took the city and destroyed it. His father settled in Bremen as a sculptor , but his parents died just two years after his birth. A childless and wealthy citizen of the city of Bremen took him in and enabled him to go to school.

After attending the Latin School in Bremen, he studied theology at the old grammar school , which had already received the academic structure in the sense of a grammar school illustrious in 1584 , and attended lectures by Conrad Iken (1689–1753) and Nikolaus Nonnen (1701–1772). After graduating, he was accepted as a theology candidate by the Bremen Ministry in 1746. In the same year he went to Herford to see the abbess Johanna Charlotte von Anhalt-Dessau and represented the court preacher there for four months . After his return to Bremen he received an offer from Professor Nonnen to go to Carolath in Silesia and there to become court preacher to Prince Hans Carl zu Carolath-Beuthen ; the appointment took place in 1747. He initially held the office in Breslau , because the court was staying there at the time. In Lissa he was ordained by the senior of the university.

At the end of 1748 he followed a call as second preacher to Blomberg in the county of Lippe , where he married a born von Bergen from Dessau , first chambermaid of the abbess Johanna Charlotte von Anhalt-Dessau; his wife died in childbed after just eleven months. This loss, as well as the other way of interpreting religion in the County of Lippe, prompted him to return to Carolath in 1752. There he remained as court preacher until his death, despite various offers of professorship that were made to him, including from the University of Halle , which wanted to appoint him to succeed Professor Johann Simonis .

In 1754 he accompanied the prince to Warsaw as a legation preacher .

Writing

He wrote for the abbess Johanna Charlotte von Anhalt-Dessau the text The Christian in Solitude , this was a book of edification. This font was only printed in very small numbers because it was not originally intended for the public. The abbess showed the font to the Prussian minister Johann Heinrich von Carmer , who arranged for Martin Crugot to hand the font over to a publisher. The book was discussed a lot after a short time and in 1764 Karl Friedrich Bahrdt published the counter-writing Der Christ in der Einsamkeit, in which he changed Martin Crugot's text so that he emphasized Jesus' role as Savior and not his humanity.

Fonts (selection)

Martin Crugot; Nicolaus Nonnen: Dissertatio Theologica & ad Pium S. Coenae usum Parasceuastica de Leprae Aedium Mysterio: quam sub Praeside Rectore Nicolao Nonnen S. Th. D. & Prof. P. ac in Aede Mariana Ecclesiaste defends Martinus Crugot Bremensis S. Theol. Cultor. the Jovis X. Decembris MDCCXLIV . Bremæ, 1744.
The war in Germany bey opening of the campaign in 1757 . Francofurti Leipzig 1757.
The Christian in solitude . Breslau 1757. Several editions followed.
Sermons from the author of the Christian in solitude . Breslau, 1770.
Martin Crugot; Jean-Pierre Jeanrenaud: Le Sage dans la solitude ou méditations religieuses sur divers sujets . Neuchâtel: Chez JP Jeanrenaud & Comp., 1775.
Christian Doctrine; Martin Crugot: The essentials of Christian doctrine and morals, from which salvation. Scripture and proven by reason. For the youth . Sagan, 1775.
Evening thoughts on all seven days of the week . Franckfurth 1776.
Le chrétion dans la solitude Traduit l 'année 1760 et fini en 1767 (by Elisabeth Christine, Queen of Prussia) . Berlin 1776.
The essentials in Christian ethics and belief . Sagan 1776.
Morning and evening thoughts for every day of the week from the author of the Christian in Solitude . Züllichau 1777.
Martin Crugot; Sellschop, Arend Diederik (Amsterdam); Huart, Pieter (Amsterdam): Alleenspraaken met God in de morgen- en avond-stonden, op elken dag der weeke . Te Amsterdam, by Ad Sellschop en P. Huart, 1777.
Martin Crugot; Sergeĭ Savvich Volchkov: Khrīstīanin vo uedinenīi . Moskva: V Universitetskoĭ Tipografīi u N. Novikova, 1781.

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Schlichtegroll: Nekrolog on the year 1790, Zweyter Volume, pp. 243–248. Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
↑ ADB: Crugot, Martin - Wikisource. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
↑ German Biography: Crugot, Martin - German biography. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
↑ Heinrich Doering: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Bd. AH . JKG Wagner, 1831 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).
^ Karl Goedeke, Edmund Goetze: Sixth Book: From the seven year old to the world war: National seal . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005243-4 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).
^ Christian Gotthilf Salzmann: Memories from the life of excellent Germans of the eighteenth century . Verlag der Erziehungsanstalt, 1802 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).
^ Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . G. Fleischer, der Jüngere, 1803 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).
↑ Christian Jakob Wagenseil: New historical handbook for every day of the year with special consideration for the events of recent times . Jenisch and Stage, 1817 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).
↑ Carl Friedrich Bahrdt: The Christian in solitude. Improved and augmented with a number of new treatises. Johann Samuel Heinsius, Leipzig 1763. ( digitized version )
↑ Ulrich Löffler: Lisbon's Fall - Europe's horror: The interpretation of the Lisbon earthquake in German-speaking Protestantism of the 18th century . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-080188-0 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).
↑ Katja Battenfeld: Divine feeling: gentle melancholy in the English and German literature of the Enlightenment, p. 142 . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030741-2 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Crugot, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Crugot, Martinus; Crygot, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH	January 5, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	September 5, 1790
Place of death	Carolath

[1] Friedrich Schlichtegroll: Nekrolog on the year 1790, Zweyter Volume, pp. 243–248. Retrieved February 16, 2018 .

[2] ADB: Crugot, Martin - Wikisource. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .

[3] German Biography: Crugot, Martin - German biography. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .

[4] Heinrich Doering: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Bd. AH . JKG Wagner, 1831 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).

[5] Karl Goedeke, Edmund Goetze: Sixth Book: From the seven year old to the world war: National seal . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005243-4 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).

[6] Christian Gotthilf Salzmann: Memories from the life of excellent Germans of the eighteenth century . Verlag der Erziehungsanstalt, 1802 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).

[7] Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . G. Fleischer, der Jüngere, 1803 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).

[8] Christian Jakob Wagenseil: New historical handbook for every day of the year with special consideration for the events of recent times . Jenisch and Stage, 1817 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).

[9] Carl Friedrich Bahrdt: The Christian in solitude. Improved and augmented with a number of new treatises. Johann Samuel Heinsius, Leipzig 1763. ( digitized version )

[10] Ulrich Löffler: Lisbon's Fall - Europe's horror: The interpretation of the Lisbon earthquake in German-speaking Protestantism of the 18th century . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-080188-0 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).

[11] Katja Battenfeld: Divine feeling: gentle melancholy in the English and German literature of the Enlightenment, p. 142 . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030741-2 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).