Georg Philipp Harsdorffer
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Georg Philipp Harsdorffer (November 1, 1607 - September 22, 1658), German poet, was born at Nuremberg.
He studied law at Altdorf and Strassburg, and subsequently travelled through Holland, England, France and Italy. His knowledge of languages gained for him the appellation "the learned," though he was as little a learned man as he was a poet. As a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft he was called "der Spielende" (the player). Jointly with Johann Klaj he founded in 1644 at Nuremberg the order of the Pegnitzschafer, 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 Miller's Bibliothek deutscher Dichter des 17ten Jahrhunderts, vol. ix. (Leipzig, 1826). His life was written by Widmann (Altdorf, 1707).
See also Tittmann, Die Nurnberger Dichterschule (Göttingen, 1847); Hodermann, Eine vornehme Gesellschaft, nach Harsdorffers "Gesprachspielen" (Paderborn, 1890); T Bischoff, "Georg Philipp Harsdorffer" in the Festschrift zur 1600 jahrigen Jubelfeier des Pegnesischen Blumenordens (Nuremberg, 1894) ; and Krapp, Die asthetischen Tendenzen Harsdorffers (Berlin, 1904).
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
