DACH, SIMON (1605-1659), German lyrical poet, was born at Memel in East Prussia on July 29, 1605. Educated in the classical schools of Konigsberg, Wittenberg and Magdeburg, he entered the university of Konigsberg in 1626 as a student of theology and philosophy. He was professor of poetry at Konigs berg from 1639 until his death on April 15, 1659. At Konigsberg he formed with Heinrich Albert (1604-51), Robert Roberthin (1600-48) and Sibylla Schwarz (1621-38), the so-called Konigs berger Dichtergruppe. He sang the praises of the house of the elec tors of Brandenburg in a collection of poems entitled Kurbranden burgische Rose, Adler, Lowe and Scepter (1661), wrote excellent hymns, and also produced many occasional poems; the most famous of them is Anke von Tharaw oss, de my gefollt (rendered by Herder into modern German as Annchen von Tliarau).
See the edition of Dach's poems by H. Osterley (for the Stuttgart Literarischer Verein, 1876) ; also selections by the same editor (1876), and in Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur (1 883) ; also H. Stiehler, Simon Dach, sein Leben and seine ausgewahlte Dichtungen (1896).