Author: unknown
Date: 1606
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Material: stone forge, polychromy
Limestone epitaph of Urzula Krüger (?-1601).
Ursula Krüger was the widow of merchant Berend(t) Butte and the cognate of influential aldermann Andres Coye and Lukas Hübner, the counselor of the Courland’s Duke Gotthard.
Ursula Krüger married the Prussian humanist and Neo-Latin poet Daniel Hermann (1539–1601) in 1582.
Krüger was a remarkable woman: a mix of a learned woman who could compose Latin dedications and of a businesswoman who could financially and organizationally complete the editing and publishing.
Inscriptions: in the centre of the ornamental cartouche: A° 1606 DE 1. FEBRVA: HAT DIE EDLE / VNDT · THVGENDSAM · FRAWE · VR / SVLA · KRVGERS · IHREM S. EHERREN / VNDT · IHR · SELBST · ZV · CHRISTLICHER / GEDECHTNVS · DIS · EPITAPHIVM / SETZEN LASSEN / STARB · A° 16__ DE / __ DER · S · GOT / GNEDICH SEY.