Cramer, Johann Friedrich Heinrich

Cramer, Johann Friedrich Heinrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Dahlen, Sept. 2,1754. After being deacon at the Kreuz Kirche in Dresden, he was in 1815 appointed pastor there, and died September 4, 1820. He published, Kurze Erklarungen und Beobachtungen uber Abschnitte der heil. Schrift (Leipsic, 1811): — Predigten iuber die Evangelien u. Epi stein (Zittau, 1818,1820; 1826; 2 volumes): — Geschichte des Christenthums und der Kirche: — Ueber die Nachahmung Jesu (Dresden, 1791; 5th ed. 1808): — Beichtund Communionbuch (ibid. 1794; 15th ed. 1828). See Winer, Ilandbuch der theol. Lit. 2:127, 134, 316, 361, 366. (B.P.)