Elisabeth Cruciger

Aliases: Elisabeth Kreuziger; Elisabeth Creutziger

Life

Born: c.1500 in Eastern Pomerania

Died: 2 May 1535 in Wittenberg

Biography

An early Lutheran and part of Luther's circle, Elisabeth Cruciger was the first female hymnwriter of the Protestant Reformation.

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Texts by Elisabeth Cruciger

• Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn

Settings of text by Elisabeth Cruciger

• Herr Christ der einig Gottes Sohn (Anonymous)
• Herr Christ der einig Gotts Sohn (Anonymous)
• Herr Christ der einige Gottes Sohn (Johann Balthasar Erben)
• Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn (Hans Leo Hassler)

Publications

• Cruciger contributed a hymn to the Erfurt Enchiridion (Erfurt, 1524)