Wolfgang Crell the Younger

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Wolfgang Crell

Wolfgang Crell (also Crellius or Krell ; * September 1592 in Bremen ; † July 8, 1663 in Berlin ) was a German Reformed theologian and preacher of the Elector of Brandenburg in Cölln .

Life

Crell was a son of the Wittenberg theologian Wolfgang Crell the Elder. (1535–1593), who was expelled from Electoral Saxony in 1574 on charges of crypto-calvinism , and a grandson of the Bremen reformer Christoph Pezel , who raised him after his father's death. He studied at the reformed grammar school illustrious in Bremen and at the University of Marburg , where he received his master's degree . He then worked as court preacher to Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel . In 1616 he was appointed by Elector Johann Sigismund von Brandenburg as a professor at the University of Frankfurt on the Oder , where he wrote the Reformed Confession. should promote. Crell taught first metaphysics, later theology; In 1620 he took over the rectorate of the university. In 1626, Elector Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg appointed him cathedral preacher at the Berlin Cathedral .

He held this office until his death, although he was involved in numerous conflicts. So he argued with his colleague at the cathedral, Johann Bergius , about the doctrine of predestination, since Crell represented the orthodox position of the Dordrecht Synod , Bergius, however, a universalist view. He publicly accused the Great Elector of coin valuation in 1651 , but did not fall out of favor, not even when in 1660 he fought out a renewed controversy with the First Court and Cathedral Preacher Bartholomäus Stosch . In 1662/63 both on the Reformed side took part in the Berlin Religious Discussion between the Brandenburg Lutherans and the Reformed, initiated by the Great Elector .

In addition to academic writings and casual sermons, Crell published an interpretation of the catechism in 1652.

Crell was married three times. Several of his sons were also active in the Prussian civil service.

literature

  • Rudolf von Thadden : The Brandenburg-Prussian court preachers in the 17th and 18th centuries. A contribution to the history of the absolutist state society in Brandenburg-Prussia. de Gruyter, Berlin 1959, p. 245.
  • Lothar Noack, Jürgen Splett: Bio Bibliographies. Brandenburg scholars of the early modern period. Berlin-Cölln 1640–1688. de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-002840-8 , pp. 99-102.
  • Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-412-08300-3 , esp.p. 457 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In older literature mostly 1593, but this has been corrected in Noack / Splett.
  2. ↑ To this in detail Johannes M. Ruschke: Paul Gerhardt and the Berlin Church Dispute. An examination of the confessional disputes about the electorally decreed 'mutua tolerantia' (= Contributions to Historical Theology, Volume 166). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-150952-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Crell, Wolfgang the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crellius, Wolfgang; Krell, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian and cathedral preacher from the Elector of Brandenburg in Cölln
DATE OF BIRTH September 1592
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1663
Place of death Berlin