Daniel Cramer

German theologian
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Quick Facts

IntroGerman theologian
PlacesGermany
wasReligious scholar Author Theologian Writer Educator
Work fieldAcademia Literature Religion
Gender
Male
Birth20 January 1568, Recz, Gmina Recz, Choszczno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Death5 October 1637Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland (aged 69 years)
The details

Biography

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.

Writings

He is now remembered for his emblem book Emblemata Sacra (1617). 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; his preaching in front of Philipp is recorded.[1]

Works

  • Areteugenia drama [1]
  • 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)
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