Caspar Cruciger the Younger

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Melanchthon's successor at Wittenberg, son of the elder Caspar Cruciger; born at Wittenberg March 19, 1525; died at Kassel April 16, 1597. In the discussions after 1570 he was one of the leaders of the Philippists, and was engulfed in their catastrophe in 1574. He was imprisoned and was banished from Saxony in 1576. After a short residence with the count of Nassau at Dillenburg he went to Hesse, and died as pastor and president of the consistory at Kassel.


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