Daniel Cramer

Daniel Cramer.

Daniel Cramer (Daniel Candidus) (20 January 1568 – 5 October 1637) was a German Lutheran theologian and writer from Reetz (Recz), Brandenburg. He was an opponent of the Ramists and the Jesuits.

Life

He became professor and archdeacon at Stettin. Earlier, in the 1590s, he was at the University of Marburg, writing on Aristotle.^[1][2]

Writings

He is now remembered for his emblem book Emblemata Sacra (1617).^[3] This was followed by the Octaginta emblemata moralia nova (1630).

He wrote also neo-Latin drama, and controversial works in theology. For the Duke of Pomerania, Philipp II, he became involved in writing the church history Pomerania^[4]; his preaching in front of Philipp is recorded.[4]

Works

• Areteugenia drama[5]
• Plagium (1593) drama
• Isagoge in Metaphysicam Aristotelis (1594)
• Synopsis trium librorum rhetoricorum Aristotelis (Stettin, 1597)
• Extract und kurtzer warhafftiger Bericht vom Colloquio zu Regensburg, zwischen unsern Theologen ... und den Gehsuiten (Stettin, 1602)
• Methodus concionandi, de interpretatione cujusvis textus biblici, tam artificiosa quam populari (Stettin, 1605)
• Das Grosse Pomrische Kirchen-Chronicon, four volumes (Stettin, 1628)

References

• Adam McLean (editor), Fiona Tait (translator)(1991) The Rosicrucian Emblems of Daniel Cramer: The True Society of Jesus and the Rosy Cross
• Sabine Mödersheim (1994) "Domini Doctrina Coronat". Die geistliche Emblematik Daniel Cramers (1568-1637)
• Wolfgang Harms and Michael Schilling (editors of reprint) (1994) Daniel Cramer: Emblemata Sacra
• Angela Baumann-Koch (2001) Frühe lutherische Gebetsliteratur bei Andreas Musculus und Daniel Cramer
• Friedrich Wagnitz (Kiel 2001), Daniel Cramer (1568-1637). Ein Leben in Stettin um 1600

Notes

1. ^ [1]. The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy describes his Isagoge as the earliest German textbook on metaphysics. (p.626)
2. ^ One of his pupils was Jakob Martini (1570-1649), author of Exercitationes metaphysicae.[2]
3. ^ Composed with the academic and poet Conrad Bachmann (1572-1646). The first edition of 40 was called Decades quatuor emblematum sacrorum. The 1624 edition (of 50) may be better known.
4. ^ [3]. This was the first such history, and written from a strictly Lutheran perspective (this PDF, about the year 1637, on Cramer).

External links

• (Polish) Biobibliography
• Emblem Mollesco
• Emblem Praedestinor
• Emblem Probor

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Name	Cramer, Daniel
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Date of birth	20 January 1568
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Date of death	5 October 1637
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