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KRANTZ (or CRANTZ), See also: German historian, was a native of See also: Hamburg
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He studied See also: law, See also: theology and See also: history at See also: Rostock and Cologne, and after travelling through western and See also: southern See also: Europe was appointed professor, first of philosophy and subsequently of theology, in the university of Rostock, of which he was rector in 1482
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In 1493 he returned to Hamburg as theological lecturer, See also: canon and prebendary in the See also: cathedral
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By the senate of Hamburg he was employed on more than one See also: diplomatic See also: mission abroad, and in 15oo he was chosen by the See also: king of
See also: Denmark and the duke of Holstein as arbiter in their dispute regarding the province of Dithmarschen
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As dean of the cathedral chapter, to which office he was appointed in 15o8, Krantz applied himself with zeal to the reform of ecclesiastical abuses, but, though opposed to various corruptions connected with See also: church discipline, he had little sympathy with the drastic
See also: measures of Wycliffe or See also: Huss
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With See also: Luther's See also: pro-test against the abuse of Indulgences he was in general sympathy, but with the reformer's later attitude he could not agree
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When, on his See also: death-See also: bed, he heard of the ninety-five theses, he is said, on See also: good authority, to have exclaimed: " See also: Brother, Brother, go into thy cell and say, See also: God have mercy upon me!" Krantz died on the 7th of See also: December 1517
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Krantz was the author of a number of See also: historical See also: works which for the See also: period when they were written are characterized by exceptional impartiality and research
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The See also: principal of these are Chronica regnorum aquilonarium Daniae, Sueciae, et Norvagiae (Strassburg, 1546) ; Vandalia, sive Historia de Vandalorum See also: vera origine, &c
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(Cologne, 1518) ; Saxonia (1520) ; and Metropolis, sive Historia de ecclesiis sub Carolo Magno in Saxonia (See also: Basel, 1548)
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See See also: life by N
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Wilckens (Hamburg, 1722)
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