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See also:PAUL See also:FLEMING (1609-1640)
, See also:German poet, was See also:born at Hartenstein in the Saxon See also:Erzgebirge, on the 5th of See also:October 1609, the son of the See also:village pastor
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At the See also:age of fourteen he was sent' to school at See also:Leipzig and subsequently studied See also:medicine at' the university
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Driven away by the troubles of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, he was fortunate enough to become attached to an. See also:embassy despatched in 1634 by See also:Duke See also:Frederick of See also:Holstein-Gottorp to See also:Russia and See also:Persia, and to which the famous traveller See also:Adam Olearius was secretary
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In 1639 the See also:mission returned; to See also:Reval, and here See also:Fleming, having become betrothed, determined to See also:settle as a physician
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He proceeded to See also:Leiden to procure a See also:doctor's diploma, but. died suddenly at See also:Hamburg on his way See also:home on the 2nd of See also:April 1640
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Though belonging to the school of See also: Tittmann in the second volume of the See also:series entitled Deutsche Dchter des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts (Leipzig, 1870), and by H . Osterley (See also:Stuttgart, 1885) . A See also:life of the poet will be found in Varnhagen von Ense's Biographische Denkmale, Bd. iv . (See also:Berlin, 1826) . See also J . Straumer, See also:Paul Flemings Leben and Orientreise (1892); L . G . Wysocky, De See also:Pauli Flemingi Germanice scrsptis et ingenio (See also:Paris, 1892) . |
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