Johann Andreas Cramer (1723-1788)

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Johann Andreas Cramer (1723-1788) was one of the most renowned theologians and preachers in the German-speaking world of his time. Brinja Bauer examines Cramer's life and work in the context of the theological Enlightenment and highlights his significance as a Lutheran theologian, poet, and cultural mediator of the eighteenth century. His sermons, hymns, and translations testify to his efforts to reconcile Lutheran theology with the ideas of the Enlightenment and to bring a form of appropriate education to Northern Europe. Beginning with Cramer's origins in the Saxon Ore Mountains and his studies in Leipzig, the author traces his close intellectual networks with leading figures of the Enlightenment such as Gottsched, Gellert, and Klopstock. The author focuses on his various places of activity - Quedlinburg, Copenhagen, Lübeck, and Kiel - which are understood as stages in a continuous process of theological and literary development.

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Born 1990; 2009-15 Study of Religious and German Studies at Kiel University; 2015-18 Editor at the Schleiermacher Research Centre in Kiel; 2018-22 Research Associate at the Institute for Church History in Kiel; 2023 Doctorate (Dr theol.); 2023-25 Vicariate in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany; Pastor in Schleswig-Holstein.

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