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) .