Adam Crusius or Crause (died 1608) was a German diplomat.He was from Bortfeld.
In August 1594 he was sent to the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle as the representative of the Duke of Brunswick.[1] He attended a banquet in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle, and James VI danced for the ambassadors. A few days after, Crusius and Joachim von Bassewitz, the ambassador from Mecklenburg, co-hosted a banquet for the other diplomats in the Palace at the castle.[2]
Crusius presented a chain of gold pea-pods enameled with green, with a locket containing a miniature portrait of the Duke of Brunswick and the story of Diana and Actaeon on the lid, and a chain made of gold whelk shells for Anne of Denmark.[3] James VI of Scotland gave Crusius a gold chain weighing 30 ounces worth 300 French crowns provided by Thomas Foulis.[4]
He came to England for the coronation of King James in July 1603 and was lodged at Twickenham Park.[5] The Venetian diplomat Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli noted that, as an envoy of a relative of the queen, Crusius was lodged at the king's expense, at Kingston upon Thames. He attended a royal banquet with the Danish ambassadors on 5/15 August, where the toasts were given in German fashion.[6] The banquet marked the anniversary of the king's rescue from the Gowrie Conspiracy.[7]
He died in 1608. Johannes Caselius published an elegy.[8]