Paul Crusius

Paul Crusius , also: Krauss (* around 1525 in Coburg ; † January 1, 1572 in Orlamünde ) was a German Protestant theologian, mathematician and historian.

Life

After training in his hometown, Crusius moved to the University of Wittenberg . He came to Meiningen as principal of the school in 1548 and became archdeacon there. After taking up a parish office in Mühlfeld in 1552 , he was appointed dean in Suhl and in 1567 as a professor of mathematics at the University of Jena .

In 1570 he took up the post of superintendent in Orlamünde , which he administered until the end of his life. Crusius worked as a historian in Suhl and wrote the "Henneberg Memorabilia" there. He also wrote mathematical and astronomical writings. Between 1564 and 1571 he wrote the important chronological treatise De Epochis seu Æris Temporum et Imperiorum , which was printed posthumously in 1578.

Fonts

• De epochis sive aeris temporum
• Henneberg memorabilia
• Doctrinam reuolutionum solis & varios canones Astronomicos , Jena 1567
• De epochis siva aeris temporum , Basel 1578

literature

• Georg Brückner:  Crusius, Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 634.
• Crusius, (Paullus). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 7, Leipzig 1734, column 1768.
• A. Grafton: From "De Die Natali" to "De Emendatione Temporum": The origins and setting of Scaliger's chronology , pp. 123 ff. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 48 , 1985, pp. 100-143.
• A. Grafton: Joseph Scaliger - A study in the history of classical scholarship , Vol. II: Historical chronology , Oxford 1993, pp. 110 ff., 133 ff. And 270 ff.
• A. Kamp: From the Paleolithic to Postmodernism - The Genesis of our Epoch System , Vol. I: From the Beginnings to the End of the 17th Century , Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2010, pp. 187–214.