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