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MORHOF, DANIEL GEORG (1639-1691)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 836 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MORHOF, DANIEL GEORG (1639-1691) ,
German
  man of letters, was born at Wismar on the 6th of February_ 1639. He first studied
jurisprudence
  and then literae humaniores at the university of
Rostock
 , where his elegant Latin versification procured for him in 166o the chair of poetry. In 1665 he went to the new university of
Kiel
  as professor of eloquence and poetry; this chair he exchanged for that of history in 1673. He died at
Lubeck
  on the 3oth of July 1691. Of his numerous writings the most important are Unterricht von der deutschen Sprache and Poesie (1682; 3rd ed., 1718), the first attempt in Germany at a systematic survey of
European
  literature, and Polyhistor, sive de auctorum notitia et rerum
commentarii
  (
Lubeck
 ,1688, not completed till 1707; 4th ed., 1747), a
kind
  of encyclopaedia of the knowledge and learning of his time.
See Eymer, Morhof and sein Polyhistor (in the Xenia Austriaca, Vienna, 1893) ; and
biography
  by R. v. Liliencron in Allgem. Deutsche Biographie (1885).


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