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Greflinger, Johann Georg (ca.1600-ca.1677)

Born in Regensburg about 1600; later came to
Hamburg, where he was "Notarius Publicus", but
occupied himself chiefly with writing. Many of
his publications such as those on gardening and confectionery, 
and gift books, were frankly written
for the trade, but he was also author and translator of poems, 
epigrams, and the like, that appear to have been worthy of 
consideration.- Cf.
Allg. Deut. Biog. 9:625.
The following, noted from the Brit. Mus. Cat.,
probably relates to the same: Oettingen, W. von.
Georg Greflinger von Regensburg als dichter, historiker 
und uebersetzer. (Brink, B. ten, and Scherer, 
W., Quellen und forschungen zur sprach- und
culturgeschichte der germanischen völker. Hft.49,
1874). This work has not been examined. (MFW)
This is doubtless the "Georg Graeflinger" who
rendered into German the Dutch "Verstandige hovenier" 
of Van Aengelen, and the French "Jardinier
françois" of Bonnefons. Haller, 1:511, says he
translated Van Aengelen in 1663, and (l.c. 1:520)
the "Frantzösischer küchen-gärtner" in 1664, and
"Frantzösischer baum- und stauden-gärtner", 1666,
corresponding to parts 1 and 2, respectively, of
Bonnefons' work. However, it appears from copies
examined that 1665 must have been the first date
of publication for any of his translations from
Bonnefons, which include "Der Frantzösische confitirer", probably also "Der Frantzösche becker"
and "Der Frantzösche koch", tho the name of the
translator does not appear in the last two.
It has also been implied that Greflinger rendered 
Le Gendre into German in 1666, but this is
probably an error, arising from the fact that in
1703 a German version of Le Gendre, presumably
made from the Dutch of Jan Commelin (Amsterdam,
1687), was added to the German text of Van Aengelen, 
which already included the tracts translated 
from Bonnefons. If Greflinger died about
1677, he obviously could not have made this version 
of Le Gendre, and no earlier German edition
has been found except that of Edlebach (Zürich,
1679). Haller, 1:546, also has entries for two
issues of Roll’s "Neues blumenbüchlein" (Frankfurt, 
1684, and Hannover, 1692), said to be "a
Grefflingero recusum". But inasmuch as Haller
includes Greflinger’s German edition of Van Aengelen 
with both these issues, it appears likely
that Roll’s book was merely reissued with that
of Van Aengelen, which might have caused the attribution
        