Fruitbearing Society
German literary society founded in 1617
The Fruitbearing Society (German Die Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, lat. Societas Fructifera) was a German literary society founded in 1617 in Weimar by German scholars and nobility. Its aim was to standardize vernacular German and promote it as both a scholarly and literary language, after the pattern of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence...