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KRANTZ (or CRANTZ), ALBERT (c. 1450-1517)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 923 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KRANTZ (or CRANTZ), ALBERT (c. 1450-1517) , German historian, was a native of Hamburg. He studied law, theology and history at
Rostock
  and Cologne, and after travelling through western and southern Europe was appointed professor, first of philosophy and subsequently of theology, in the university of
Rostock
 , of which he was
rector
  in 1482. In 1493 he returned to Hamburg as theological lecturer,
canon
  and prebendary in the
cathedral
 . By the senate of Hamburg he was employed on more than one diplomatic mission abroad, and in 15oo he was chosen by the king of Denmark and the duke of Holstein as arbiter in their dispute regarding the province of Dithmarschen. As dean of the
cathedral
  chapter, to which office he was appointed in 15o8, Krantz applied himself with zeal to the reform of ecclesiastical abuses, but, though opposed to various corruptions connected with
church
  discipline, he had little sympathy with the drastic
measures
  of Wycliffe or Huss. With Luther's pro-test against the abuse of Indulgences he was in general sympathy, but with the reformer's later attitude he could not agree. When, on his death-bed, he heard of the ninety-five theses, he is said, on good authority, to have exclaimed: " Brother, Brother, go into thy cell and say, God have mercy upon me!" Krantz died on the 7th of December 1517.
Krantz was the author of a number of historical works which for the period when they were written are characterized by exceptional impartiality and research. The
principal
  of these are Chronica regnorum aquilonarium Daniae, Sueciae, et Norvagiae (Strassburg, 1546) ; Vandalia, sive Historia de Vandalorum
vera
  origine, &c. (Cologne, 1518) ; Saxonia (1520) ; and Metropolis, sive Historia de ecclesiis sub Carolo Magno in Saxonia (Basel, 1548). See
life
  by N. Wilckens (Hamburg, 1722).


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