Caspar Creuziger

Caspar Creuziger, portrayed by Lucas Cranach the Younger.

Caspar Creuziger, also known as Caspar Cruciger the Elder (1 January 1504 – 16 November 1548), was a German Renaissance humanist and Protestant reformer.[1][2] He was professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg,[1] preacher at the Castle Church (Wittenberg, Germany), secretary to and worked with Martin Luther to revise Luther's German Bible translation.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b Wengert, Timothy J. (Autumn 1989). "Caspar Cruciger (1504-1548): The Case of the Disappearing Reformer". Sixteenth Century Journal. 20 (3). Truman State University Press: 417–441. doi:10.2307/2540788. JSTOR 2540788.
  2. ^ "Cruciger, Caspar", in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 1:456.
  3. ^ "Cruciger," Christian Cyclopedia, eds. Erwin L. Lueker, Luther Poellot, Paul Jackson.(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2000)
  4. ^ "Creuziger, Caspar", Leipzig Lexikon (Leipzig: TDG, 1998)

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