Cramer, Johann Jacob

Cramer, Johann Jacob a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Leipsic, March 11, 1658. He studied at his native place and at Wittenberg, was preacher at St. Thomas's and afterwards pastor of St. John's, at Leipsic, and died January 11, 1702. He wrote, De Promissionibus Vitae AEterner in Vet. Testamento: — De Syllogismo Christi in John 8:47: — De Vocatione Messiae ad Sacerdotium: — Theologia Israelis (published after his death, Frankfort, 1705): — De Scholarum Perpetuo in Ecclesia Dei Usu (Herborn, 1710). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:190. (B.P.)