Paul Flemmimg, a German poet, born at Hartenstein in October, 1609, died in Hamburg, April 2, 1640. He was the son of a clergyman. His medical studies in Leipsic being interrupted by the thirty years' war, he accompanied the envoy of Duke Frederick of Got-torp-Holstein to Russia and Persia, married the daughter of an Esthonian merchant, and shortly before his death received his medical diploma at Leyden. He belonged to the Silesian school of lyrical poets, and in some respects eclipsed even Opitz. His Geistliche und weltliche Poemata (Jena, 1642) and his eloquent hymn In alien meinen Thaten rank among his finest productions. Selected editions of his works have been published in Stuttgart (1820) and in Muller's collection of German poets of the 17th century (Leipsic, 1822). His posthumous Latin poems and his pastoral entitled Margenis were published by Lappenberg in Stuttgart in 1863.