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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 923 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KRANTZ (or CRANTZ), See also:ALBERT (c. 1450-1517)  , See also:German historian, was a native of See also:Hamburg . 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 . In 1493 he returned to Hamburg as theological lecturer, See also:canon and See also:prebendary in the See also:cathedral . 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 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 . As See also:dean of the cathedral See also:chapter, to which See also: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 discipline, he had little sympathy with the drastic See also:measures of Wycliffe or See also:Huss . 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 . 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 . 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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