Baumgarten-Crusius

Baumgarten-Crusius, LUDWIG FRIEDRICH OTTO, a German theologian, born at Merseburg, 1788. He studied theology at Leipzig, became in 1810 university preacher there, and in 1817 professor of Theology at Jena, where he died, May 31, 1843. As a theologian, he showed a semirationalistic tendency, from which, however, he was saved by a yet more powerful influence—a spiritual affinity with Schleiermacher. His best work is in the region of the history of dogma. His chief works are Lehrbuch der Christlichen Sittentlehre (1827), Lehrbuch der Christlichen Dogmengeschichte (2 vols. 1831-32), Kompendium der Christlichen Dogmengeschichte (2 vols. 1840-46), the last—completed from his notes by Hase—perhaps his best book.