Johann Klaj (Latinized Clajus) (161616 February 1656) was a German poet. He was born at Meissen in Saxony. After studying theology at University of Leipzig,

Wittenberg Wittenberg ( , ; Low Saxon: ''Wittenbarg''; meaning ''White Mountain''; officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg (''Luther City Wittenberg'')), is the fourth largest town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is situated on the River Elbe, north o ...

, he went to

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

as a "candidate for holy orders," and there, in conjunction with

Georg Philipp Harsdörffer Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1 November 1607 – 17 September 1658) was a Jurist, Baroque-period German poet and translator. Born in Nuremberg, he studied law at Altdorf and Strassburg. He studied at the University of Strassburg under professo ...

, founded in 1644 the literary society known as the Pegnitz order. This references

Julius Tittmann The gens Julia (''gēns Iūlia'', ) was one of the most prominent patrician families in ancient Rome. Members of the gens attained the highest dignities of the state in the earliest times of the Republic. The first of the family to obtain the ...

, ''Die Nürnberger Dichterschule'' (Göttingen, 1847). In 1647 he received an appointment as master in the Sebaldus school in Nuremberg, and in 1650 became preacher at Kitzingen, where he died in 1656. Klaj's poems consist of dramas, written in stilted language and redundant with adventures, among which are ''Höllen- und Himmelfahrt Christi'' (Nuremberg, 1644), and ''Herodes, der Kindermörder'' (Nuremberg, 1645), and a poem, written jointly with Harsdörffer, ''Pegnesische Schäfergedicht'' (1644), which gives in allegorical form the story of his settlement in Nuremberg.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Klaj, Johann 1616 births 1656 deaths People from Meissen 17th-century German poets People from the Electorate of Saxony German male poets German-language poets 17th-century German male writers Baroque writers