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.Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber, et al., Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste (1829), p. 231; Google Books.
Cruciger taught theology at Marburg. He was one of the representatives of Hesse-Kassel at the Synod of Dort 1618-9 New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, article Dort, Synod of.
In 1624 he was dismissed from Marburg, with the other theologians Johannes Crocius and Caspar Sturm, as a result of religious changes in Hesse.Henning P. Jürgens and Thomas Weller (editors), Religion und Mobilität: zum Verhältnis von raumbezogener Mobilität und religiöser Identitätsbildung im frühneuzeitlichen Europa (2010), p. 396 note 45; Google Books.
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).William Jervis Jones, German Lexicography in the European Context: a descriptive bibliography of printed dictionaries and word lists containing German language (1600-1700) (2000), p. 258; Google Books.
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