Daniel Cramer
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Daniel Cramer (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.
.
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.http://www.ruegenwalde.com/greifen/phi-2/phi-2.htm
Germany
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Lutheran theologian and writer from Reetz (Recz)
Recz
Recz is a town in Choszczno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 3,001 as of 2004.-External links:*...
, Brandenburg
Margraviate of Brandenburg
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. 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 AristotleAristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
.
Writings
He is now remembered for his emblem bookEmblem book
Emblem books are a category of mainly didactic illustrated book printed in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, typically containing a number of emblematic images with explanatory text....
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
Pomerania
Pomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...
; his preaching in front of Philipp is recorded.http://www.ruegenwalde.com/greifen/phi-2/phi-2.htm
Works
- Areteugenia dramahttp://www.cesar.org.uk/cesar2/books/soleinne/a.php
- 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)