Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German poet
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Place of Birth: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
About Georg Philipp Harsdörffer
- Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1 November 1607 – 17 September 1658) was a Baroque-period German poet and translator. 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 Pegnitzschäfer (Pegnitz Shepherds), a literary society, in Nuremberg.
- He was known by the name 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 Müller's Bibliothek deutscher Dichter des 17ten Jahrhunderts, vol.
- ix (Leipzig, 1826).
- Widmann (Altdorf, 1707) wrote a biography of him. He was the father of Karl Gottlieb Harsdörffer, (1637–1708)
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