Samuel Cramer

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Samuel Cramer

Samuel Cramer (born July 3, 1842 in Middelburg , † January 30, 1913 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch theologian .

Life

Samuel Cramer was a son of the Mennonite pastor Alle Meenderts Cramer and his wife Elisabeth Muller, a daughter of the Dutch-German theologian Samuel Muller . From 1861 he studied theology in Amsterdam and obtained his doctorate in April 1866 with a thesis on Zwingli at the University of Utrecht . He then worked as a Mennonite pastor from 1866 to 1870 in Zijldijk in the province of Groningen , from 1870 to 1872 in Emden , from 1872 to 1885 in Enschede and from 1885 to 1890 in Zwolle . Appointed professor of theology in Amsterdam in 1890, he held from 1895 lectures on church history and exegesis of the New Testament at the local university .

During his preaching activity in Enschede, Cramer married Maria Charlotte de Clerq in 1875, who also came from an old Mennonite family. The marriage had a daughter and two sons. After the death of his first wife (March 18, 1898), Cramer married Maria Abrahamina Stuart on July 26, 1900, with whom he had a happy second marriage.

Cramer was particularly interested in church history. He was an advocate of the modern direction of theology, but tried to mediate in Enschede during his activity there in 1877 between orthodox-minded Reformed and followers of the more recent theological direction. In 1886 he paid a visit to the Mennonite congregations in the Palatinate, Prussia and the Russian part of Poland , and in the same year he initiated the unification of the Mennonite congregations in the German Empire.

Cramer published articles in various magazines, including in the Protestant church newspaper for Protestant Germany , as well as in the real encyclopedia for Protestant theology and church edited by Johann Jakob Herzog . In collaboration with the theology professor Fredrik Pijper , he edited the Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica (1903-1914), which is a source work on the history of the Dutch Reformation.

In June 1912 Cramer, already suffering from health problems, gave his last lecture at the university and died on January 30, 1913 at the age of 70 in Amsterdam.

literature

  • SBJ Zilverberg: Cramer, Samuel. In: Biografisch Lexicon voor de Geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme. Vol. 2, 1983, p. 148 f. ( Online )

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SURNAME Cramer, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Middelburg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1913
Place of death Amsterdam