Georg Philipp Harsdorffer
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Georg Philipp Harsdõrffer (November 1, 1607 - September 22, 1658), German poet and translator, was born at Nuremberg.
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.
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).
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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.
