Caspar Cruciger the Younger
Caspar Cruciger the Younger ( born March 19, 1525 Wittenberg, † April 16, 1597 in Kassel ) was a Lutheran theologian.
Life
Caspar Cruciger the Younger was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Caspar Cruciger the Elder. and Elisabeth von Meseritz born on March 19, 1525 in Wittenberg. Encouraged by his father and Philipp Melanchthon, he began an academic career in the summer semester 1533 at the University in his hometown. On February 22, 1556, he passed the exam from a Master of Divinity.
On April 26, 1557, he joined the artistic faculty of the University of Wittenberg, where he gave his lesson from a professor of poetics. After the death of Philipp Melanchthon Cruciger took over the lesson of theology on 8 April 1561 and thus went on whose lectures. He gained on May 16, 1561 the academic degree of licentiate in theology and on December 14, 1569 he was taken on in the theological faculty. He then received his doctorate May 11, 1570 as a doctor of theology, was in the summer semester 1560 Dean of the Faculty of Arts, in the winter semester 1564/65 Vice-Rector, in the summer semester 1571 rector of the Alma Mater.
Cruciger this year was next to George Major and Paul Eber of the mainstays of Philippists. On the Altenburg Colloquy and on the Zerbst Convention he represented this faith. 1574 there was a dispute with Matthias Flacius Illyricus. As a result, the Elector Augustus of Saxony in 1574 demanded of the Wittenberg Philippists acceptance " of the article from the Eucharist ". However Cruciger this year refused to sign and was accused as a representative of Kryptocalvinismus. Therefore, he was expelled from Wittenberg, Leipzig thrown in jail, temporarily interned in Naumburg and directed at November 19, 1576 of the Electorate of Saxony, with the condition never to write anything against the Elector of Saxony and the country, not even against its Church and the universities.
Then he went first for two years after Dillenburg, where he, the Count of Nassau offered asylum. Then he moved to Kassel, where he was pastor and chairman of the Spiritual Board of Trustees and took over the education of the Prince Maurice. It spread mainly the reformist doctrine, but rejected an appeal to the University of Leiden, to not be considered a Calvinist. Caspar Cruciger the Younger died in Kassel on 16 April 1597th
Genealogy
He married on November 24, 1561 Elizabeth, daughter of Sebastian Fröschel. With her he had a son George Cruciger (1575-1637), professor of theology and philosophy in Marburg, and four daughters.
Works
- " Epistola ad Dantiscanos De exorcismo " 1572
- " Continued collection of old and new theological matters" 1746 Leipzig
- " Finite report " against the Flacianer