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Elisabeth Cruciger (also spelled Kreuziger, Creutziger etc.; née von Meseritz) (c. 1500 - 2 May 1535), a German writer, was the first female poet and hymnwriter of the Protestant Reformation and a friend of Martin Luther.
Elisabeth von Meseritz was born into a noble family in
Kreutziger, Elisabeth.
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Elisabeth Cruciger (also spelled Kreuziger, Creutziger etc.; née von Meseritz) (c. 1500 - 2 May 1535), a German writer, was the first female poet and hymnwriter of the Protestant Reformation and a friend of Martin Luther.
Life
Elisabeth von Meseritz was born into a noble family in Eastern Pomerania
Eastern Pomerania can refer to distinct parts of Pomerania:
*The historical region of Farther Pomerania, which was the eastern part of the Duchy, later Province of Pomerania
*The historical region of Pomerelia including Gdańsk Pomerania, located ...
. While still a child, she became a nun at the Marienbusch Abbey, a Premonstratensian
The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church ...
cloister in Treptow an der Rega. At the cloisters, she learnt of the religious ideas of the Reformation through Johannes Bugenhagen, one of the influential figures in Lutheranism.
In 1522 Elisabeth left the abbey to move to Wittenberg, where she joined Bugenhagen's household. Then in 1524 she married the theologian Caspar Cruciger, a student and an assistant to Martin Luther. Together they had two children: a daughter, Elisabeth, who married Andreas Kegel, the rector of Luther's hometown Eisleben, and then—on Kegel's death—Luther's son Johannes; and a son, Caspar Cruciger the Younger, who succeeded in Philip Melanchthon
Philip Melanchthon. (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lu ...
's post as professorship at Wittenburg.
Elisabeth Cruciger died in Wittenberg in 1535.
Veneration
In 2022, Elisabeth Cruciger was officially added to the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar with a feast day on 3 May.Works
* ForEpiphany
Epiphany may refer to:
* Epiphany (feeling), an experience of sudden and striking insight
Religion
* Epiphany (holiday), a Christian holiday celebrating the revelation of God the Son as a human being in Jesus Christ
** Epiphany season, or Epiph ...
- "" in the current German Protestant hymnal ' (EG) Nr. 67 (originally known as ''Eyn Lobsanck vom Christo'', first published in Erfurt 1524 in '' Eyn Enchiridion oder Handbüchlein'', an early Protestant hymnal)
Notes
References
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* * Carl BertheauKreutziger, Elisabeth.
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Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...
'' (ADB). Vol 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 148 f.
* Sonja Domröse: ''Frauen der Reformationszeit, Gelehrt, mutig und glaubensfest'', Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010,
* Walther Killy: '' Killy Literaturlexikon''. Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache''. Directmedia Publications, Berlin 2000, . (1 CD-ROM)
* Elisabeth Schneider-Böklen: ''Elisabeth Cruciger, die erste Dichterin des Protestantismus''. In: ''Gottesdienst und Kirchenmusik''. Heft 2/1994, S. 32 ff.
* Wolfgang Herbst: Wer ist wer im Gesangbuch?Onlineleseprobe
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* 1500 births 1535 deaths 16th-century German Roman Catholic nuns Premonstratensian nuns German women poets German Lutheran hymnwriters Converts to Lutheranism from Roman Catholicism 16th-century hymnwriters Women hymnwriters 16th-century women composers Cruciger family Martin Luther family Anglican saints Year of birth uncertain {{songwriter-stub