Martin Crusius
Illustration — Portrait of Crusius Bildnis, copy of an original painting by Anton Ramsler, 1590 Martin Kraus (Gräfenberg, 19 September 1524 – Tübingen, 7 March 1607), commonly Latinized as Crusius, was a German classicist and historian, and long-time professor (1559–1607) at the University of Tübingen. He was a follower of Philip Melanchthon and wrote an epitome of Melanchthon's Elementorum rhetorices libri duo. Kraus also wrote a commentary on the Iliad.
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Martin Crusius
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Illustration — Portrait of Crusius Bildnis, copy of an original painting by Anton Ramsler, 1590 Martin Kraus (Gräfenberg, 19 September 1524 – Tübingen, 7 March 1607), commonly Latinized as Crusius, was a German classicist and historian, and long-time professor (1559–1607) at the University of Tübingen. He was a follower of Philip Melanchthon and wrote an epitome of Melanchthon's Elementorum rhetorices libri duo. Kraus also wrote a commentary on the Iliad.
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Ioannis Kottounios, Johannes Fröhlich and Georg Pfeiffer are recorded as having studied under Martin Crusius. The recorded working language is Latin. Places of work recorded in the authority are Tübingen. Employment is recorded with University of Tübingen.
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1526
Martin Crusius born at Gräfenberg.
1607
Martin Crusius died at Tübingen.
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- 1.Emil Reichenhart: Die lateinische schule zu Memmingen im reformationszeitalter. III. Die schule unter Crusius. In: Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie und Paedogogik 26 = 122 (1880), S. 331–345, bes. S. 344–345 (Google-Books).
- 2.Notizen in einer Handschrift Crusius' mit Predigtnachschriften des Dietrich Schnepf (Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, Mc 101, S. 216 und S. 120*; vgl. Mc 220, S. 3*); Hedwig Röckelein (Bearb.): Die lateinischen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, S. 215f.
- 3.Martin Crusius: Narratio de periculis, quae ipsius parentes tempore Smalcaldici belli experti sunt, ab ipso MDLI conscripta (1551; altgriechisch und lateinisch). In: ders.: Aethiopicae Heliodori historiae epitome. Johannes Wechel, Bernhard Jobin, Frankfurt am Main 1584, Anhang, S. 6–67 (Google-Books) = Marquard Freher: Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores, Bd. III. Claudius Marnius Erben, Hanau 1611, S. 426–446 (Digitalisat der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München); 2. Auflage hrsg. von Burkhard Gotthelf Struve, Johannes Reinhold Dulssecker, Straßburg 1717, S. 499–518 (Google-Books).
- 4.Aus Wurzach, Schüler Reuchlins im Griechischen, am 24. Oktober 1521 als „Gregorius Kütz (Kurtz Waltzensis)“ in Tübingen immatrikuliert, seit 1527 Lehrer in Ulm; Karl Pfaff: Versuch einer Geschichte des gelehrten Unterrichtswesens in Württemberg in ältern Zeiten. Wagner, Ulm 1842, S. 51f.
- 5.Söhne des sächsischen Rates Dietrich von Werthern (1468–1536) zu Wiehe und Beichlingen.
- 6.Porträt 1529 von Hans Maler begonnen, vollendet von Christoph Amberger, in der Alten Pinakothek, München (Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds, Nr. 547a).
- 7.Heinz von Mackowitz: Der Maler Hans von Schwaz. (Schlern-Schriften 193). Wagner, Innsbruck 1960, S. 52f.
- 8.Martin Crusius: Schwäbische Chronick, Bd. II. Metzler und Erhard, Frankfurt am Main 1733, S. 301 (Google-Books).
- 9.Aus Memmingen, vielleicht ein Sohn von Christof Dietmaier und (⚭ 1534) Rosina Zangemeister, 1557 immatrikuliert in Jena, am 5. Juni 1559 in Tübingen; Martinus Crusius Bottensteinanus immatrikulierte sich am 5. Juli 1559 in Tübingen; vgl. Martin Crusius: Annales sueuici. Nikolaus Bassée, Frankfurt am Main 1596, S. 703 (Google-Books).
- 10.Hans Widmann: Autorennöte eines Gelehrten im 16. Jahrhundert. 1968, S. 2936.
- 11.Wilhelm Götz, Ernst Conrad (Hrsg.): Diarium Martini Crusii 1596–1597. Tübingen 1927; dieselben: Diarium Martini Crusii 1598–1599. Ebenda 1931; Reinhold Stahlecker †, Eugen Staiger, unter Mitwirkung von Reinhold Rau und Hans Widmann (Hrsg.): Diarium Martini Crusii 1600–1605. Ebenda 1958; Eugen Staiger (Bearb.): Diarium Martini Crusii. Gesamtregister. Ebenda 1961.
- 12.Hans Widmann: Autorennöte eines Gelehrten im 16. Jahrhundert. 1968, S. 2929 f., 2932 und 2935.
- 13.Hans Widmann: Autorennöte eines Gelehrten im 16. Jahrhundert. 1968, S. 2929 f.
- 14.Martin Crusius: Annales Suevici. 3 Bände (zu je 12 Büchern, den „Dodekaden“). Nicolaus Basseus (auch N. Bassaeus, Nicolaus Bassé, N. Bassée), Frankfurt am Main 1595 (Band 1–2) bis 1596 (Band 3).
- 15.Hans Widmann: Autorennöte eines Gelehrten im 16. Jahrhundert. 1968, S. 2930 f. und 2935.
- 16.Hans Widmann: Autorennöte eines Gelehrten im 16. Jahrhundert. 1968, S. 2934 und 2937.
- 17.Reinhold Stahlecker: Martin Crusius, der erste deutsche Verfasser eines Kommentars zum gesamten Homer. In: Philologische Wochenschrift. Band 59, 1939, Sp. 1196–1207.
- 18.Vgl. Martin Crusius: Commentationes in I. lib. Iliad. Homeri […]. Gotthard Voegelin, Heidelberg (September) 1612.
- 19.Hans Widmann: Autorennöte eines Gelehrten im 16. Jahrhundert. 1968, S. 2934–2938.
- 20.Albin Lesky: Geschichte der griechischen Literatur. Francke, Bern 1957; hier: 2. Auflage. Bern/München 1963, S. 103–109.
- 21.Wilhelm Schmid (Hrsg.): Wilhelm v. Christs Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur. 5 Bände. C. H. Beck, München 1929–1948, hier: Teil 1, Band 1 (= Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaften. Abteilung 7, 1, 1), S. 224–246.
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