HARSDORFFER, GEORG PHILIPP German poet, was born at Nuremberg on Nov. 1, 1607. Jointly with Johann Klaj he founded in 1644 at Nuremberg the literary society of the Pegnitzschafer, for the purification of the German language. He died at Nuremberg on Sept. 22, 1658. His writings in German and Latin fill 5o volumes, and a selection of his poems, interesting mostly for their form, is to be found in Holler's Bibliothek deutscher Dicliter des .r7ten Jahrhunderts, vol. ix. (Leipzig, 1826).