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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Paul Fleming Biography FLEMING, or FLEMMING, Paul (1609-40). A German poet. He was born at Hartenstein (Saxony), studied at the universities of Leipzig and Leyden, and in 1633-39 accompanied the embassy sent by Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein to Moscow and Persia. His early work was in the manner of Martin Opitz (q.v.), whom he afterward greatly surpassed. He is not indeed wholly free from the volubility and artificiality characteristic of the verse of his time, but he displays more frequently than do his contemporaries sincerity and directness and easily outranks them all in poetic fervor. His collected poems, edited by his friend Adam Olearius, were published in 1646. The best subsequent edition is by Lappenberg (the Latin poems, 1863; the German, 2 vols., 1865) in Nos. 73, 82, and 83 of the Bibliothek des litterarischen Vereins. Consult also: Varnhagen von Ense, Biographisehe Denkmale, vol. iv (3d ed., Leipzig, 1872); Straumer, Flemings Leben and orientalische Reise (ib., 1892); Wysocki, De Pauli Flemingi Germamice Scriptis et Ingenio (Paris, 1892); Bornemann, Paul Fleming (Stettin, 1899). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. VIII (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 680. |