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FLEMING, PAUL (1609-1640)

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FLEMING, See also:PAUL (1609-1640) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at Hartenstein in the Saxon See also:Erzgebirge, on the 5th of See also:October 1609, the son of the See also:village pastor. At the See also:age of fourteen he was sent' to school at See also:Leipzig and subsequently studied See also:medicine at' the university. Driven away by the troubles of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, he was fortunate enough to become attached to an. See also:embassy despatched in 1634 by See also:Duke See also:Frederick of See also:Holstein-Gottorp to See also:Russia and See also:Persia, and to which the famous traveller See also:Adam Olearius was secretary. In 1639 the See also:mission returned; to See also:Reval, and here Fleming, having become betrothed, determined to See also:settle as a physician. He proceeded to See also:Leiden to procure a See also:doctor's diploma, but. died suddenly at See also:Hamburg on his way See also:home on the 2nd of See also:April 1640. Though belonging to the school of See also:Martin Opitz, Fleming is distinguished from most of his contemporaries by the See also:ring of genuine feeling and religious fervour that pervades his lyric, poems, even his occasional pieces. In the See also:sonnet, his favourite See also:form of See also:verse, he was particularly happy. Among his religious poems the hymn beginning " In See also:alien meinen Taten lass ich den, Hochsten eaten " is well known and widely sung. Fleming's Teutsche Poemata appeared posthumously in 1642; they are edited by J. M. See also:Lappenberg, in the' Bibliothek See also:des litterarischen Vereins (2 vols., 1863; a third See also:volume, 1866, contains Fleming's Latin poems). Selections have been edited by J.

Tittmann in the second volume of the See also:

series entitled Deutsche Dchter des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts (Leipzig, 1870), and by H. Osterley (See also:Stuttgart, 1885). A See also:life of the poet will be found in Varnhagen von Ense's Biographische Denkmale, Bd. iv. (See also:Berlin, 1826). See also J. Straumer, Paul Flemings Leben and Orientreise (1892); L. G. Wysocky, De See also:Pauli Flemingi Germanice scrsptis et ingenio (See also:Paris, 1892).

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