LIV. Simon Dach

1605-1659. Dach was a Königsberg schoolmaster who won considerable repute as a writer of religious and occasional verse. He is the earliest Prussian poet of any importance. The second selection shows what he thought of Opitz. His Anke van Tharau, though a wedding-song written by request (like many of Dach’s productions), is so fresh and hearty that Herder gave it a place among his folksongs. The text follows Oesterley’s edition in Kürschner’s Nationalliteratur, Vol. 30.