Martin Bircher notes on the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft collection, 1961-1996.

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Martin Bircher notes on the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft collection, 1961-1996.

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Contains newspaper articles, notes, and other writings by Bircher dealing with the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft collection. Also includes a marked up draft of Bircher's catalog of the collection, Im Garten der Palme (Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998).

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Bircher, Martin.

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Historical Note A particularly important aspect of the German Baroque period was the emergence of social structures which promoted literacy and the humanistics arts and sciences. Learned societies were established throughout Europe to bring scholars and writers together. One such society was the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (Fruitbearing Society), known also as the Palmenorden (Order of the Palms) because its emblem was the then-exotic coconu...