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KLAJ (latinized CLAJUS), JOHANN (1616-1656)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 844 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KLAJ (latinized CLAJUS), JOHANN (1616-1656) ,
German
  poet, was
born
  at Meissen in
Saxony
 . After studying theology at Wittenberg he went to
Nuremberg
  as a "candidate for holy orders," and there, in conjunction with Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, founded in 1644 the literary society known as the Pegnitz order. In 1647 he received an
appointment
  as master in the Sebaldus school in
Nuremberg
 , and in 165o became preacher at Kitzingen, where he died in 1656. Klaj'spoemsconsist of dramas, written in
stilted
  language and redundant with adventures, among which are Hollen- and Himmelfahrt Christi (Nuremberg, 1644), and Herodes, der Kindermorder (Nuremberg, 1645), and a poem, written jointly with Harsdorffer, Pegnesische Schafergedicht (1644), which gives in allegorical form the story of his
settlement
  in Nuremberg.
See Tittmann, Die Niirnberger Dichterschule (
Gottingen
 , 1847).


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