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Elisabeth [Elisabet] Cecelia (nèe von Meseritz or Moseritz) Kreuziger [Kreutziger, Cruciger, Creutziger] was a daughter of a Polish nobleman. During the persecutions, the family came to Wittenberg, where the young woman was married to Kaspar Kreuziger, a student at the university and one of Martin Luther’s most devoted pupils.
Shortly after, he became minister and teacher in Magdeburg and later, 1528, professor of theology in Wittenberg. Elisabeth Kreuziger, who was a friend of Martin Luther’s wife, is known as the 1st poetess of the Evangelical Lutheran movement and mentioned as a woman of rare musical gifts and a model wife and mother. |
