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See also:KLAJ (latinized CLAJUS), JOHANN (1616-1656) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Meissen in See also:Saxony. After studying See also:theology at See also:Wittenberg he went to See also:Nuremberg as a "See also:candidate for See also:holy orders," and there, in See also:conjunction with Georg Philipp See also:Harsdorffer, founded in 1644 the See also:literary society known as the See also:Pegnitz See also:order. In 1647 he received an See also:appointment as See also:master in the Sebaldus school in Nuremberg, and in 165o became preacher at See also:Kitzingen, where he died in 1656. Klaj'spoemsconsist of dramas, written in See also:stilted See also:language and redundant with adventures, among which are Hollen- and Himmelfahrt Christi (Nuremberg, 1644), and Herodes, der Kindermorder (Nuremberg, 1645), and a poem, written jointly with Harsdorffer, Pegnesische Schafergedicht (1644), which gives in allegorical See also:form the See also:story of his See also:settlement in Nuremberg. See Tittmann, See also:Die Niirnberger Dichterschule (See also:Gottingen, 1847). End of Article: KLAJ (latinized CLAJUS), JOHANN (1616-1656)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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