Daniel Cramer (Daniel Candidus) (20 January 1568 – 5 October 1637) was a German

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theologian and writer from Reetz (Recz),

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. He was an opponent of the

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s and the

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Life

He became professor and archdeacon at

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. Earlier, in the 1590s, he was at the

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, writing on

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Writings

Cramer is remembered for his

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''The True Society of Jesus and the Rosy Cross'' (1617). It was reprinted with different titles: ''Emblemata sacra'' (1624), and ''Emblematum sacrorum'' (1627), composed with the academic and poet Conrad Bachmann (1572–1646). The 1624 edition (with 50 emblems) is the better known. This was followed by the ''Octaginta emblemata moralia nova'' (1630). The common denominator of all the Cramer's emblems is a mystic heart, represented in the most different situations: chained, crowned, nailed to a cross, to the roots of a rosary, endowed with wings, undermined by the devil, and so on. The books of emblems composed by Daniel Cramer are considered by some scholars (for example

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and Giordano Berti) as expressions of the Rosicrucian thought. Indeed, various clues suggest that Cramer was a member of the

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brotherhood. Daniel Cramer wrote also neo-Latin drama, and controversial works in theology. For the

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, Philipp II, he became involved in writing the church history

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; his preaching in front of Philipp is recorded.

Works

*''Areteugenia'' *''Plagium'' (1593) drama *''Isagoge in Metaphysicam Aristotelis'' (1594) *''Synopsis trium librorum rhetoricorum Aristotelis'' (Stettin, 1597) *''Extract und kurtzer warhafftiger Bericht vom Colloquio zu Regensburg, zwischen unsern Theologen ... und den Gehsuiten'' (Stettin, 1602) *''Methodus concionandi, de interpretatione cujusvis textus biblici, tam artificiosa quam populari'' (Stettin, 1605) *''Das Grosse Pomrische Kirchen-Chronicon'', four volumes (Stettin, 1628)

References

Sources

*Adam McLean (editor), Fiona Tait (translator)(1991) ''The Rosicrucian Emblems of Daniel Cramer: The True Society of Jesus and the Rosy Cross'' *Sabine Mödersheim (1994) ''"Domini Doctrina Coronat". Die geistliche Emblematik Daniel Cramers (1568–1637)'' *Wolfgang Harms and Michael Schilling (editors of reprint) (1994) ''Daniel Cramer: Emblemata Sacra'' *Angela Baumann-Koch (2001) ''Frühe lutherische Gebetsliteratur bei

Andreas Musculus Andreas Musculus (Latinized name, Latinized for Andreas Meusel; 29 November 1514 – 29 September 1581) was a German Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer. Musculus was born in Schneeberg, Saxony, Schneeberg, "generally called only Musculus ...

und Daniel Cramer'' *Friedrich Wagnitz (Kiel 2001), ''Daniel Cramer (1568–1637). Ein Leben in Stettin um 1600''

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Biobibliography
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''The Sibyl of the Heart. History and Contents''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cramer, Daniel 1568 births 1637 deaths German Lutheran theologians People from Choszczno County People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg University of Rostock alumni Academic staff of the University of Marburg 17th-century German Protestant theologians German male non-fiction writers 17th-century German male writers