KRÜDENER, BARBARA JULIANA von. — Political woman, religious preacher, and writer, b. at Riga on 21 Nov. 1764, d. at Karasubazar in the Crimea on 24 Dec. 1824. In 1804 she turned to a mystical pietism under the influence of the teaching of the “Moravian Brethren” and the writings of Zinzendorf; later she was drawn into the Swedenborgian current of J. H. Jung-Stilling, the pastor F. Fontaine, and the seeress Maria Gottliebin Kummer, who made her a visionary. Believing herself called to preach a new religion in Europe, she began by condemning, without exception, all the Christian confessions of her time.
Received by Emperor ALEXANDER I at Heilbronn in 1815, she succeeded in gaining great influence over him, so that the supposition that she induced the Tsar to
The prophet Nārada had foretold to Kamsa, king of Mathurā, that he would be slain by the eighth son of his cousin Devakī, wife of Vasudeva. The cruel tyrant
is found in the Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 19 (1910), pp. 700-708, various studies on the poet Romanos and other themes of Greek ecclesiastical poetry (kasia, kyriakos, the acrostic in Greek ecclesiastical poetry), articles on Byzantine historians (Theophanes, Michael Glykas), on hagioigraphy (Theodosios, George the Martyr), on proverbs and popular songs, and on philological themes. For love of learning K. preferred the celibate life; he remained always faithful to the doctrine of the Catholic Church.