CRUSIUS (KRAUSS), MARTIN. – German Protestant philologist and historiographer, born near Bamberg on 19 September 1526, died on 14 February 1607 in Tübingen, where he was professor of moral philosophy and Greek.
In addition to his works on the Greek and Latin classics, the following works of his have been preserved: 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.
C. should be remembered for an unsuccessful attempt to win the Greeks over to Protestantism, and for the correspondence maintained for this purpose with the patriarch of Constantinople, Jeremias II.