Cruger, Theodor

Cruger, Theodor a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1694 at Stettin, in Pomerania. He studied at Jena and Wittenberg; was in 1721 rector at Lucka, in Lower Lusatia; in 1727, pastor at Kirchhain; in 1732, superintendent at Colditz, and in 1735 at Chemnitz. He was made doctor of theology in 1737, and died June 1, 1751, leaving, Schediasma Historicun, etc. (Wittenberg, 1719): — De Successione Pontificum Romanorum (ibid. 1723): — Heptalogos in Ara Crucis (Frankfort, 1726): — De Veterum Christianorum Disciplina Arcani (Wittenberg, 1727): — Introductio in Christologiam Moralem (Dresden, 1732), etc. See Moser, Jetztlebende Theologen; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:634; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)