Daniel Cramer

[1] Cramer is remembered for his emblem book The True Society of Jesus and the Rosy Cross (1617).

It was reprinted with different titles: Emblemata sacra (1624), and Emblematum sacrorum (1627), composed with the academic and poet Conrad Bachmann (1572–1646).

The common denominator of all the Cramer's emblems is a mystic heart, represented in the most different situations: chained, crowned, nailed to a cross, to the roots of a rosary, endowed with wings, undermined by the devil, and so on.

The books of emblems composed by Daniel Cramer are considered by some scholars (for example Adam McLean and Giordano Berti) as expressions of the Rosicrucian thought.

Daniel Cramer wrote also neo-Latin drama, and controversial works in theology.