Daniel Georg Morhof (6 February 163930 July 1691) was a German writer and scholar.

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Morhof was born at

Wismar Wismar (; Low German: ''Wismer''), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (''Hansestadt Wismar'') is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city ...

. He first studied

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and then '' literae humaniores'' at the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock (german: link=no, Universität Rostock) is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continen ...

, where his elegant

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versification procured for him in 1660 the chair of poetry.See entry o
Daniel Georg Morhof
in Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium In 1665 he moved to the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

as professor of eloquence and poetry; this chair he exchanged for that of history in 1673. He died at Lübeck. This cites: * Eymer, ''Morhof und sein Polyhistor'' (in the ''Xenia Austriaca'', Vienna, 1893) * Biography by R. v. Liliencron in '' Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (1885) 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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morhof, Daniel Georg 1639 births 1691 deaths German scholars People from Wismar University of Rostock alumni Academic staff of the University of Rostock Academic staff of the University of Kiel