Institution

Fruitbearing Society

1617 · 17th century · Also known as Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft

The Fruitbearing Society (Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft) was a learned society founded at Weimar in 1617 by Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen and others to cultivate and purify the German language. Modelled on the Italian Accademia della Crusca, it had its seat at Köthen for many years and admitted princes, nobles and writers, among them Martin Opitz and Andreas Gryphius. It became inactive in the 1680s.

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Principality of Anhalt-Köthen

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