Georg Philipp Harsdõrffer (November 1, 1607 - September 22, 1658), Germanpoet and translator, was born at Nuremberg. Image File history File links Georg_Philipp_Harsdörffer. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... Events January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. ...
He studied law at Altdorf and Strassburg, and subsequently travelled through the Netherlands, England, France and Italy. His knowledge of languages gained for him the appellation "the learned." As a member of the Fruitbearing Society (Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft) he was called der Spielende (the player). Jointly with Johann Klaj he founded in 1644 at Nuremberg the order of the Pegnitzschãfer (Pegnitz Shepherds), a literary society, and among the members thereof he was known by the name of Strephon. Weighing scales represent the way law balances peoples interests For other senses of this word, see Law (disambiguation). ... Altdorf bei Nürnberg [] is a town in south-eastern Germany. ... Strasbourg townscape Strasbourg (German Straßburg, road to castle, Alsatian Strossburi) is the capital and principal city of the Alsace région of northeastern France. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ... The Fruitbearing society (Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft) was a German literary society founded in 1617 in Weimar by German scholars and nobility to emulate the idea of the Accademia della crusca in Florence and other similar groups already thriving in Italy, France, and Britain. ... Johann Klaj (latinized Clajus) (1616 - 1656), German poet, was born at Meissen in Saxony. ... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ...
His writings in German and Latin fill fifty volumes, and a selection of his poems, interesting mostly for their form, is to be found in Mũller's Bibliothek deutscher Dichter des 17ten Jahrhunderts, vol. ix. (Leipzig, 1826). His life was written by Widmann (Altdorf, 1707). Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...
References
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Julius Tittmann, Die Nürnberger Dichterschule (Göttingen, 1847)
Hodermann, Eine vornehme Gesellschaft, nach Harsdõrffers "Gesprãchspielen" (Paderborn, 1890)
T. Bischoff, "Georg Philipp Harsdõrffer" in the Festschrift zur 1600 jahrigen Jubelfeier des Pegnesischen Blumenordens (Nuremberg, 1894)
Krapp, Die asthetischen Tendenzen Harsdõrffers (Berlin, 1904).
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
After studying theology at Wittenberg he went to Nuremberg as a "candidate for holy orders," and there, in conjunction with GeorgPhilippHarsdorffer, founded in 1644 the literary society known as the Pegnitz order.
In 1647 he received an appointment as master in the Sebaldus school in Nuremberg, and in 1650 became preacher at Kitzingen, where he died in 1656.
Klaj's poems consist of dramas, written in stilted language and redundant with adventures, among which are Millenand Himmelfahrt Christi (Nuremberg, 1644), and Herodes, der Kindermorder (Nuremberg, 1645), and a poem, written jointly with Harsdorffer, Pegnesische Schafergedicht (1644), which gives in allegorical form the story of his settlement in Nuremberg.
See also Tittmann, Die Narnberger Dichterschule (Göttingen, 1847); Hodermann, Eine vornehme Gesellschaft, nach Harsdorffers ' ` Gesprachspielen " (Paderborn, 1890); T. Bischoff, " GeorgPhilippHarsdorffer " in the Festschrift zur 250jeihrigen Jubelfeier des Pegnesischen Blumenordens (Nuremberg, 1894); and Krapp, Die eisthetischen Tendenzen Harsdorffers (Berlin, 1904).
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