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          Elisabeth Cruciger was a friend of Martin Luther and the first female Reformation-era hymn writer.

          Two children were born to them, viz..

          Elisabeth Cruciger

          Elisabeth Cruciger (also spelled Kreuziger, Creutziger etc.; née von Meseritz) (c.&#; – 2 May ), a German writer, was the first female poet and hymnwriter of the Protestant Reformation[1] and a friend of Martin Luther.

          Life

          Elisabeth von Meseritz was born into a noble family in Eastern Pomerania. While still a child, she became a nun at the Marienbusch Abbey, a Premonstratensian cloister in Treptow an der Rega.

          At the cloisters, she learnt of the religious ideas of the Reformation through Johannes Bugenhagen, one of the influential figures in Lutheranism.

          At age 20, Elisabeth encountered a traveling Humanist scholar named Johannes Bugenhagen who preached the Gospel in a way Elisabeth had never heard before.

        1. Elisabeth Cruciger's hymn "Herr Christ der einig Gottes Sohn" appeared in Later it was sometimes attributed to Andreas Knoepken.
        2. Two children were born to them, viz.
        3. Examining recent claims that the early modern Bible served as an empowering force for women, the article draws evidence from English sermons designed for.
        4. Mary married the the love of her life, William O. Cruciger Jr., and they raised five children together.

          5. In Elisabeth left the abbey to move to Wittenberg, where she joined Bugenhagen's household. Then in she married the theologian Caspar Cruciger, a student and an assistant to Martin Luther. Together they had two children: a daughter, Elisabeth, who married Andreas Kegel, the rector of Luther's hometown Eisleben, and then—on Kegel's death—Luther's son Johannes; and a son, Caspar Cruciger