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HARSDORFFER, GEORG PHILIPP (1607-1658)

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HARSDORFFER, GEORG PHILIPP (1607-1658) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Nuremberg on the 1st of See also:November 1607. He studied See also:law at See also:Altdorf and See also:Strassburg, and subsequently travelled through See also:Holland, See also:England, See also:France and See also:Italy. His knowledge of See also:languages gained for him the appellation " the learned," though he was as little a learned See also:man as he was a poet. As a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft he was called der Spielende (the player). Jointly with Johann See also:Klaj (q.v.) he founded in 1644 at Nuremberg the See also:order of the Pegnitzschafer, a See also:literary society, and among the members thereof he was known by the name of Strephon. He died at Nuremberg on the 22nd of See also:September 1658. His writings in German and Latin fill fifty volumes, and a selection of his poems, interesting mostly for their See also:form, is to be found in See also:Miller's Bibliothek deutscher Dichter See also:des 17ten Jahrhunderls, vol. ix. (See also:Leipzig, 1826). His See also:life was written by Widmann (Altdorf, 1707). See also Tittmann, See also:Die Nurnberger Dichterschule (See also:Gottingen, 1847) ; Hodermann, Eine vornehme Gesellschaft, nach Harsdorffers " Gesprachspielen" (See also:Paderborn, 1890); T. Bischoff, " Georg Philipp Harsdorffer " in the Festschrift zur 25ojahrigen Jubelfeier des Pegnesischen Blumenordens (Nuremberg, 1894) ; and Krapp, Die asthetischen Tendenzen Harsdorffers (See also:Berlin, 1904).

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