Caspar Cruciger
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Caspar Cruciger is name of two Lutheran theologians of the Protestant Reformation:
- Caspar Cruciger the Elder
- Caspar Cruciger the YoungerCaspar Cruciger the YoungerCaspar Cruciger the Younger was a German theologian.Born in Wittenberg, he was the son of Caspar Cruciger the Elder and his wife, the hymnwriter and former nun Elisabeth von Meseritz. He was Melanchthon's successor at the University of Wittenberg...