The ''Elbschwanenorden'' (Order of

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Swans) was a literary association of the

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, founded between 1656 and 1660, dissolved in 1667. It was initiated by the poet and Protestant minister

Johann Rist Johann Rist (8 March 1607 – 31 August 1667) was a German poet and dramatist best known for his hymns, which inspired musical settings and have remained in hymnals. Life Rist was born at Ottensen in Holstein-Pinneberg (today Hamburg) on 8 Marc ...

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and is named after the situation of the town on the lower Elbe. One of the goals was to maintain the integrity of the German language.

Members

The members took ''Ordensnamen'' which are given in italics. * (''Philoclythus'') * (''Sylvander'') * Constantin Christian Dedekind (''ConCorD'') * (''Celadon'') * (''Candorin'') * F riedrich Hofmann (''Epigrammatocles'') * (''Kleodor'') * Balthasar Kindermann (''Kurandor'') *

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(''Artisander'') * Johannes Praetorius (''Prophulidor'') *

(''Palatin'') *

Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer (11 July 1635 – 8 September 1699) was a German jurist, poet, satirist and Protestant hymn writer. He worked as an advocate at the court of Wolfenbüttel. Johann Sebastian Bach used a stanza from his hymn "" to conclude his ...

(''Hierophilo'') * (''Philosophander'') *

Jacob Sturm Jacob Sturm (21 March 1771 – 28 November 1848) was a leading engraver of entomology, entomological and botany, botanical scientific publications in Germany at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. He was born and lived in Nur ...

(''Soliander'') * (''Fidelidor'')

Literature

* Karl F. Otto, Jr.: ''Die Sprachgesellschaften des 17. Jahrhunderts''. Metzler, Stuttgart 1972, (Sammlung Metzler; 109). * Hans Schultz: ''Die Bestrebungen der Sprachgesellschaften des XVII. Jahrhunderts für Reinigung der deutschen Sprache''. Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1975 (reprint of Göttingen 1888). * Christoph Stoll: ''Sprachgesellschaften im Deutschland des 17. Jahrhunderts. Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, Aufrichtige Gesellschaft von der Tannen, Deutschgesinnte Genossenschaft, Hirten- und Blumenorden an der Pegnitz, Elbschwanenorden''. List, München 1973, (List-Taschenbuch der Wissenschaft; 1463).

External links

Reallexicon der Deutschen Altertümer auf zeno.org
{{Authority control Writing circles 17th-century German literature