Martin Crusius

German classicist and historian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Martin Kraus (Gräfenberg, 19 September 1524 – Tübingen, 7 March 1607), commonly Latinized as Crusius, was a German classicist and historian, and long-time professor (1559–1607) at the University of Tübingen. He was a follower of Philip Melanchthon and wrote an epitome of Melanchthon's Elementorum rhetorices libro duo.[1] Kraus also wrote a commentary on the Iliad.[1]

Portrait of Crusius Bildnis, copy of an original painting by Anton Ramsler, 1590

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