Georg Cruciger (also Creuziger, Kreuziger) (1575–1637) was a German Calvinist theologian and linguist.
Life edit
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 edit
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 edit
- ^ Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber, et al., Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste (1829), p. 231; Google Books.
- ^ "History of the German people at the close of the Middle Ages".
- ^ New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, article Dort, Synod of.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.