CRELLIUS, JOHN, a famous Socinian, born in 1590, in a village near Nuremberg. In 1612 he went into Poland, where the Unitarians had a school, in which he became professor of divinity and minister at Cracow, where he died in 1632, aged forty-two. Crellius wrote, 1. Ethica Aristotelica, ad Sacrarum Literarum normam emendata, 1650, 4to; 2. De Deo et attributis ejus, Cracow, 1630; 3. De uno Deo patre libri duo, in quibus multa etiam de Filii et Spiritus Sancti natura, 1631, 8vo; 4. Declaratio sententie de causis mortis Christi, 1637, 8vo; 5. Vindicie pro Religionis libertate, 1637, 8vo; 6. De Spiritu Sancto qui fidelibus datur, 1650, 8vo; 7. Catechesis ecclesiarum Polonicarum reformata et redacta primum per Faustum Socinum et alios, nunc a J. Crellio, etc. recognita, Irenopoli, 1665, 1680, 1684, 8vo; and other works, including a German translation of the New Testament, and Commentaries on some of the Epistles.