Andreas Tscherning was one of the leading members of the school of poets who sought to follow the path laid out by Martin Opitz. Tscherning was well regarded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Augustus Buchner, professor of poetics and rhetoric at the University of Wittenberg and teacher of an extraordinary number of the seventeenth century's finest poets, admired him; Matthäus Apelles von Löwenstern supported him financially and joined him in writing and dramatic projects; the teacher and poet Christophorus Colerus in Breslau (now Wroclaw) helped launch his career; he followed Nathan Chrytäus and the Laurembergs in the chair for poetics at Rostock University and taught his eventual successor, Daniel Georg Morhof; he was admired by Colerus's student Johann Peter Titz, professor of poetry and rhetoric at the gymnasium in Danzig (today Gdansk, Poland). In his Versuch einer Critischen Dichtkunst (Essay on...