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Johann Klaj

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Latin:
Johannes Clajus
Born:
1616, Meissen, Saxony [Germany]
Died:
Feb. 16, 1656, Kitzingen, near Würzburg, Franconia [Germany] (aged 40)

Johann Klaj (born 1616, Meissen, Saxony [Germany]—died Feb. 16, 1656, Kitzingen, near Würzburg, Franconia [Germany]) was a German poet who helped make mid-17th-century Nürnberg a centre of German literature. Klaj studied theology at the University of Wittenberg and then went to Nürnberg, where, with Georg Philipp Harsdörfer, he founded in 1644 the literary society known as the Pegnesischer Blumenorden (“Pegnitz Order of Flowers”). He taught at Nürnberg, and in 1650 he went as teacher and preacher to Kitzingen. He specialized in pastoral poetry, often using ingenious internal rhyme schemes, and wrote, with Harsdörfer, the Pegnesisches Schäfergedicht (1644; Pegnitz Idyll) and ...(100 of 148 words)

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