Creutziger (Lat Cruciger), Caspar

Creutziger (Lat. Cruciger), Caspar a German Protestant theologian, son of another of the same name, was born at Wittenberg, March 19, 1525. Having been expelled from his professorship there because he had embraced the doctrines of Calvin, he was called as preacher to Cassel, where he died, April 16, 1597, leaving De Justificatione et Bonis Operibus, and some polemical works. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.