Johannes Crucius

Johannes Crucius, or Jean de la Croix (1560 – 1625), was a Dutch theologian.

Biography He was born in Lille, France, as the son of Jacobus de la Croix, a Walloon preacher of Middelburg, among other cities. He was the brother of Jacobus Crucius. Crucius studied in Geneva, and graffiti on the epitaph of Erasmus of Rotterdam in Basel Minster still testifies of his stay in Switzerland. On 28 September 1586 he matriculated at Heidelberg University, a year after Franciscus Gomarus, along with the students Abrahamus Vandermylen of Dordrecht, Meinardus ab Idzaerda of Friesland, and Andreas ab Hiddema of Friesland. He then matriculated at Leiden in 1589 and the following year he was selected to succeed Jean Taffin as Walloon preacher at the Waalse Kerk, Haarlem, where he is buried.

He married Elisabeth Stoock and their first child was baptised 7 June 1591. He died in Haarlem.