GEORG PHILIPP HARSDORFFER

'Georg Philipp Harsdörffer' (November 1, 1607 - September 22, 1658), German poet and translator, was born in Nuremberg.
He studied law at Altdorf and Strassburg, and subsequently traveled through the Netherlands, England, France and Italy. His knowledge of languages earned him the appellation "the learned." As a member of the Fruitbearing Society (Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft) he was called ''der Spielende'' (the player). In 1644 jointly with Johann Klaj he founded the order of the Pegnitzschãfer (Pegnitz Shepherds), a literary society, in Nuremberg. He was known by the name of Strephon among the members of this order.
His writings in German and Latin fill fifty volumes, and a selection of his poems, which are mostly interesting for their form, can be found in Mũller's ''Bibliothek deutscher Dichter des 17ten Jahrhunderts'', vol. ix. (Leipzig, 1826). Widmann (Altdorf, 1707) wrote a biography of him.

Contents

References

References

★ 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).

★