print email comment close Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/fbg/contents.html Description: Exhibit devoted to "the activities and membership of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft [Fruitbearing Society], the earliest German learned society, founded in 1617." The Society "promoted the use of German as a literary and scholarly language by the attention it focused on important new works of German scholarship and literature ... publishing these works through most of the 17th century." Features annotated images of publications, manuscripts, engravings, and related material. From the University of California, Berkeley, Library. Publisher: University of California, Berkeley Extra Keywords Bancroft Library Baroque Dublin Core Material Type: Text, Image Library of Congress Subject Headings: German language German philology -- Societies, etc. Learned institutions and societies LII Database Information: Record 22194 created by Tom McGibney on 07/25/2006 Last modification on 02/09/2007 Published: 08/16/2006   California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22194