- Caspar Creuziger
Caspar Creuziger or Caspar Cruciger the Elder (
January 1 ,1504 -November 16 ,1548 ) was a German humanist [ "Cruciger, Caspar," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 1:456.] . He was professor of Theology at theUniversity of Wittenberg , preacher at the Castle Church (Wittenberg, Germany), secretary to [http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=c&word=CRUCIGER "Cruciger,"]Christian Cyclopedia , eds. Erwin L. Lueker, Luther Poellot, Paul Jackson.(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2000)] and worked withMartin Luther to revise Luther's German Bible translation. [ [http://www.leipzig-lexikon.de/PERSONEN/15040101.htm "Creuziger, Caspar,"] Leipzig Lexikon (Leipzig: TDG, 1998)] .He was the father of
Caspar Cruciger the Younger .Biography
Born in
Leipzig , Creuziger entered theUniversity of Leipzig at age 12, where he studied underPeter Mosellanus . The outbreak of the plague drove him to Wittenberg in 1521, where he completed his studies in the Hebrew language. [ Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 456.]In 1525, he became Rector at Magdeburg's Johannnisschule. He was called to the faculties of Philosophy and Theology at Wittenberg in 1528, where he lectured in both disciplines, preached at the Castle Church and wrote faculty opinions. He received his doctorate from Wittenberg in 1533. He continued to teach
exegesis ,dogmatics and edited instructional materials. During these years, Martin Luther included him in the reformer's circle of translators, who assisted him in revising the German Bible version. [ Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 457.]In 1539, Creuziger assisted Leipzig introduce reforms. He served as a delegate to theological convocations at Hagenau, Worms and
Regensburg . When other theologians fled theSchmalkald War , he remained at his post. [ Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 457.]Creuziger also edited the Wittenberg edition of Luther's Works [ Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 457.] and helped to draft the
Leipzig Interim . .He died at Wittenberg in 1548.
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Bibliography
*In epistolam Pauli ad Timotheum priorem Commentarius
*Enarratio Psalmi 116–118
*Der XX. Psalm für christliche Herrschaft zu beten
*In Evangelium Johannis Apostoli Enarratio
*Enarratio Psalmi: Dixit Dominus [110] et aliquot sequentium
*Comment. in Matthaeum
*In Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos Commentarius
*De iudiciis piarum Synodorum sententia
*Enarrationis Symboli Nicaeni articuli duo, de Synodis et tribus personis Divinitatis.
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