Clajus. I. Johann, a German clergyman and author, whose real name was Clai, born at Herzberg, electoral Saxony, about 1533, died at Bendeleben, Thuringia, April 11, 1592. He studied at Grimma and Wittenberg, and became a teacher of music, poetry, and Greek at Goldberg. After returning to Wittenberg to qualify himself for the ministry, he was installed in 1572 as rector at Nordhausen, and in 1574 at Bendeleben. He acquired eminence by his erudition, by his German and Latin poems, by his German, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew editions of Luther's minor catechism, and especially by his Grammatica Germanicae Linguae (Leipsic, 1578), which was one of the earliest and most thorough works of the kind. II. II Johann, a German clergyman and poet, born in Meissen in 1616, died at Kitzingen in 1656. He studied theology at Wittenberg, and in 1647 became a teacher at Nuremberg, and in 1650 a preacher at Kitzingen. He was one of the leaders of the Nuremberg school of poetry, and with Harsdorfer founded the poetical union known as the Pegnitzorden. He published the Pegneshches Schafergedicht (Nuremberg, 1644), and several of his Geistliche Trauer- tind Freu-dempiele continue to be popular.