Sincere fir company
The Aufrichtige Tannengesellschaft was a German- speaking society in the Baroque period .
Young writers founded the Sincere Fir Society in Strasbourg in 1633 . It should give the German mother tongue its purity and determine the spelling. The society, whose membership was deliberately limited to ten, existed until around 1670.
Significant members were u. a .:
- Johannes Freinsheim
- Johannes Küffer
- Johann Michael Moscherosch
- Isaiah Rompler von Löwenhalt
- Johann Matthias Schneuber
literature
- Monika Bopp: The "Fir Society": Studies on a Strasbourg language society from 1633 to around 1670. Johann Matthias Schneuber and Jesaias Rompler von Löwenhalt in their literary environment . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998. ISBN 3-631-33034-0 .
- Wilhelm Kühlmann, Walter Ernst Schäfer: Literature in Alsace from Fischart to Moscherosch. Collected Studies . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2001. ISBN 3-484-10838-X . In Part II: The Fir Society - a Strasbourg literary society . Pp. 97-160.
- Günter Voigt: The poets of the Sincere Fir Society in Strasbourg . Unspoiled, Groß-Lichterfelde 1899.