Crell, Paulus

Crell, Paulus a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Eisleben, February 5, 1531. He was doctor and professor of theology at Wittenberg; was calledl in 1568 as provost to Meissen, and died there, May 24, 1579. He prepared an Evangelien-Harmonie and wrote, Opus Concordantiarum: — Tractatus de Justificatione: — Commonefactio de Verbis Symboli: — Credo Remissionem Peccatorum et de Dicto Pauli: — Gratia Salvati Estis: — Spongia de Definitione Evangelii. See Freheri, Theatrum Eruditorum; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:166. (B.P.)