Georg Cruciger
German Calvinist theologian and linguist
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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]