See also:KRANTZ (or CRANTZ), See also:ALBERT (c. 1450-1517)
, 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 See also:Cologne, and after travelling through western and See also:southern See also:Europe was appointed See also:professor, first of See also:philosophy and subsequently of theology, in the university of Rostock, of which he was See also:rector in 1482
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In 1493 he returned to Hamburg as theological lecturer, See also:canon and See also:prebendary in the See also:cathedral
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By the See also: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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Denmark and the See also:duke of See also:Holstein as arbiter in their dispute regarding the See also:province of See also:Dithmarschen
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As See also:dean of the cathedral See also:chapter, to which See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he was appointed in 15o8, See also:Krantz applied himself with zeal to the reform of ecclesiastical abuses, but, though opposed to various corruptions connected with See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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 See also: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 See also:cell and say, See also:God have See also: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 See also:research
.
The See also:principal of these are Chronica regnorum aquilonarium Daniae, Sueciae, et Norvagiae (See also:Strassburg, 1546) ; Vandalia, sive Historia de Vandalorum See also:vera origine, &c
.
(Cologne, 1518) ; Saxonia (1520) ; and See also:Metropolis, sive Historia de ecclesiis sub Carolo Magno in Saxonia (See also:Basel, 1548)
.
See See also:life by N
.
Wilckens (Hamburg, 1722)
.
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