Georg Cruciger

Georg Cruciger was a German Calvinist theologian and linguist.

Life

He was born in Merseburg, son of Caspar Cruciger the Younger.
Cruciger taught theology at Marburg. He was one of the representatives of Hesse-Kassel at the Synod of Dort 1618-9
In 1624 he was dismissed from Marburg, with the other theologians Johannes Crocius and Caspar Sturm, as a result of religious changes in Hesse.

Works

His Harmonia linguarum, dedicated to Maurice, [Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel], was a language harmony that listed over 2000 Hebrew roots and asserted derivatives in Latin, Greek and German.