CRUSIUS (Krauss), Martin — German Protestant philologist and historian, born near Bamberg on 19 September 1526, died on 14 February 1607 at Tübingen, where he was professor of moral philosophy and Greek language.
In addition to his works on Greek and Latin classics, the following survive: *Corona anni, hoc est, explicatio Evangeliorum et Epistolarum in diebus dominicis et festis graece et latine* (Wittenberg 1603); *Homiliae hymnodicae, quatuor et quinquaginta cantica ecclesiae lutheranae bene disposita* (Arnstadt 1705); *Annales suevici* (2 vols. in-fol., Frankfurt 1594–96), a highly esteemed but rare work. In 1927 W. Göz and E. Conrad published the *Diarium M. Crusii* 1596–97.
Noteworthy is Crusius’s unsuccessful attempt to win the Greeks over to Protestantism, and the correspondence he conducted for this purpose with the Patriarch of Constantinople, Jeremiah II.