Georg Cracow, Kraków, Cracov, Cracau or Cracovius (7 November 1525, in

Stettin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major seaport, the largest city of northwestern Poland, and se ...

– 17 March 1575, in

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) was a German lawyer and statesman.

Family

In 1549 he married Sara, the first daughter of

Johannes Bugenhagen Johannes Bugenhagen (24 June 1485 – 20 April 1558), also called ''Doctor Pomeranus'' by Martin Luther, was a German theologian and Lutheran priest who introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th ...

. She died in 1563 and in 1565 a memorial painting was erected in

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, the creation of

Lucas Cranach the Younger Lucas Cranach the Younger (, ; 4 October 1515 – 25 January 1586) was a German Renaissance painter and portraitist, the son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and brother of Hans Cranach. Life and career Lucas Cranach the Younger was born in Wittenber ...

Bibliography

Theodor Muther: Cracow, Georg.
In:

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB; ) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences between 1875 and 1912 in 56 volumes, printed in Lei ...

(ADB). Vol 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 540–543. * * (Nebeneintrag) *

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (20 July 1694 – 10 May 1758) was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer. Jöcher was born in Leipzig, and became professor of history at the University of Leipzig in 1732. From 1742, he was university librar ...

: ''Allgemeines Gelehrten–Lexikon''. Band 1, Sp. 2162 * Walter Friedensburg: ''Geschichte der Universität Wittenberg''. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917 * Otto Vogt: ''Dr. Johannes Bugenhagens Briefwechsel''. Hildesheim 1966, Mit einem Vorwort und Nachträgen von Eike Wolgast, Reprint der Ausgaben Stettin 1888–99 und Gotha 1910, weiter ergänzt * Theodor Wotschke: ''Aus Wittenberger Kirchenbüchern''. In: ''Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte'' (ARG). 1932, Seite 208 * Gustav Stier: ''Corpusculum Inscriptionum Vitebergensium – Die Lateinischen Inschriften Wittenbergs''. Herrose, Wittenberg 1860 * Julius Köstlin: ''Die Baccaulaurei und Magistri der Wittenberger Philosophischen Fakultät (1503–1560)''. Halle 1887 * Matrikel der Universität Wittenberg von 1502–1610 * Heinz Scheible: ''Melanchthons Briefwechsel Personen''. Band 11 *
''Cracow, Georg''.
In: ''

Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles, from 1839 to 1984, when it merged with the . Joseph Meyer (publisher), Joseph Meyer (1796–1856), who had founded the publishing hous ...

'' 1885–1892, 4. Band, Seite 322 * Helmar Junghans: ''Verzeichnis der Rektoren, Prorektoren, Dekane, Professoren und Schloßkirchenprediger der Leucorea vom Sommersemester 1536 bis zum Wintersemester 1574/75.'' In: Irene Dingel, Günther Wartenberg: ''Georg Major (1502–1574). Ein Theologe der Wittenberger Reformation.''

Evangelische Verlagsanstalt The Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (EVA) is a denominational media company founded in Berlin in 1946. Its shareholders are the and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony. The managing director is Sebastian Knöfel. Book publisher The range in ...

, Leipzig 2005,

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