Cran worth, Baron

See Rolfe. Cranz, or Krantz (kränts) David. Born 1723: died at Gnadenfrei, Silesia, June 6, 1777. A German Moravian historian. He became secretary to Count Zinzendorf in 1747, was afterward sent on a mi ion to Green land, whence he returned 1762, and in 1766 was appointed pastor at Rixdorf, near Berlin. He wrote "Historie von Grönland" (1765), and "Alte und neue Brüder-Historie oder kurze Geschichte der evangel is chen Brüder-Unitat" (1771). Craon (kron). A town in the department of Mayenne, France, 18 miles southwest of Laval. Population (1891), commune, 4,434.