Daniel Georg Morhof

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Daniel Georg Morhof.

Daniel Georg Morhof (6 February 1639Template:Snd30 July 1691) was a German writer and scholar.

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Morhof was born at Wismar. He first studied jurisprudence and then literae humaniores at the University of Rostock,<ref>See entries of Daniel Georg Morhof in Rostock Matrikelportal</ref> where his elegant Latin versification procured for him in 1660 the chair of poetry.<ref>See entry of Daniel Georg Morhof in Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium</ref> In 1665 he moved to the University of Kiel as professor of eloquence and poetry; this chair he exchanged for that of history in 1673. He died at Lübeck.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |

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• Eymer, Morhof und sein Polyhistor (in the Xenia Austriaca, Vienna, 1893)
• Biography by R. v. Liliencron in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1885)</ref>

Of his numerous writings, the most important are Unterricht von der deutschen Sprache und Poesie (1682), the first attempt in Germany at a systematic survey of European literature, and Polyhistor, sive de auctorum notitia et rerum commentarii (Lübeck, 1688, not completed till 1707; 4th ed., 1747), a kind of encyclopaedia of the knowledge and learning of his time.<ref name="EB1911"/>