Elisabeth Cruciger
Elisabeth Cruciger (also spelled Kreuziger, Creutziger etc.; nee von Meseritz) (c. 1500 in Meseritz in Hinterpommern - 2 May 1535 in Wittenberg) was the first female poet and hymnwriter of the Protestant Reformation and a friend of Martin Luther.
Life
She was born into a noble family in Pomerania and while still a child entered Marienbusch Abbey, a Premonstratensian house in Treptow an der Rega. She got to know the ideas of the Reformation through Johannes Bugenhagen, converted to Lutheranism and in 1522 left the abbey to move to Wittenberg, where she lived in Bugenhagen's household. Then, in 1524, she married the theologian Caspar Cruciger the Elder, a student and assistant of Luther - they had one daughter, Elisabeth Cruciger the Younger (who married rector Kegel and then, on his death, to Luther's son Hans in Eisleben), and one son, Caspar Cruciger the Younger.
Works
- For Epiphany - Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn im Evangelischen Gesangbuch (EG) Nr. 67 (originally known as Eyn Lobsanck vom Christo, first published in Erfurt 1524 in Ein Enchiridion oder Handbüchlein, the second oldest Protestant hymnal)
Bibliography
- Mary Jane Haemig, 'Elisabeth Cruciger (1500?-1535): The Case of the Disappearing Hymn Writer', The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 21–44
- Template:De icon Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Elisabeth Cruciger". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 1170–1171. ISBN 3-88309-013-1.
- Template:De icon Carl Bertheau: Kreutziger, Elisabeth. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Vol 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 148 f.
- Template:De icon Sonja Domröse: Frauen der Reformationszeit, Gelehrt, mutig und glaubensfest, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-55012-0
- Template:De icon Wolfgang Herbst (ed.): Komponisten und Liederdichter des Evangelischen Gesangbuchs (Handbuch zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch, Bd. 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-50318-0.
- Template:De icon Walther Killy: Literaturlexikon. Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache. Directmedia Publications, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89853-109-0. (1 CD-ROM)
- Template:De icon Elisabeth Schneider-Böklen: Elisabeth Cruciger, die erste Dichterin des Protestantismus. In: Gottesdienst und Kirchenmusik. Heft 2/1994, S. 32 ff.
- Template:De icon Wolfgang Herbst: Wer ist wer im Gesangbuch? (Onlineleseprobe)