title: Cruciger
text: # Cruciger
  
  Cruciger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Elisabeth Cruciger (c. 1500–1535), author of the early Protestant hymn "Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn"
  * Caspar Cruciger the Elder (1504–1548), German humanist
  * Caspar Cruciger the Younger (1525–1597), German theologian
  