Georg Cruciger

Georg Cruciger (also Creuziger, Kreuziger) (1575–1637) was a German Calvinist theologian and linguist.

Life

He was born in Merseburg, son of Caspar Cruciger the Younger.[1]

Cruciger taught theology at Marburg.[2] He was one of the representatives of Hesse-Kassel at the Synod of Dort 1618-9 [3]

In 1624 he was dismissed from Marburg, with the other theologians Johannes Crocius and Caspar Sturm, as a result of religious changes in Hesse.[4]

Works

His Harmonia linguarum (1616), dedicated to Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, was a language harmony that listed over 2000 Hebrew roots and asserted derivatives in Latin, Greek and German (High German and some Dutch).[5]

Notes
  1. Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber, et al., Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste (1829), p. 231; Google Books.
  2. https://archive.org/stream/historyofgermanp14jansuoft#page/178/mode/2up
  3. New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, article Dort, Synod of.
  4. Henning P. Jürgens and Thomas Weller (editors), Religion und Mobilität: zum Verhältnis von raumbezogener Mobilität und religiöser Identitätsbildung im frühneuzeitlichen Europa (2010), p. 396 note 45; Google Books.
  5. William Jervis Jones, German Lexicography in the European Context: a descriptive bibliography of printed dictionaries and word lists containing German language (1600-1700) (2000), p. 258; Google Books.
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