Daniel Georg Morhof

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Daniel Georg Morhof, copper engraving from 1731
Daniel Georg Morhof, engraving by Johann Wilhelm Michaelis

Daniel Georg Morhof (born February 6, 1639 in Wismar ; † July 30, 1691 in Lübeck ) was a well-known German literary historian and polyhistor .

Life

Morhof was the son of a lawyer from Wismar and studied in Rostock under Johann Lauremberg and Andreas Tscherning . After Tscherning's death in 1660 he took over his chair for poetry. In 1665 he accepted an appointment at the newly founded University of Kiel , where he later became a professor of history and librarian and wrote his most important works. He died on July 30, 1691 in Lübeck after returning home from Bad Pyrmont .

Insignificant as a poet, Morhof is nevertheless very important as the founder of general literary history, namely through the works Teaching of the German Language and Poetry , in which he also gives an overview of the non-European literatures, and Polyhistor . Both works were of considerable importance for the development of German poetry theory beyond the Baroque period .

Works (selection)

Title copper of the Opera poetica , 1697
  • De metallorum transmutatione ad… Joelem Langelottum Serenissimi Principis Cimbrtici Archiatrum Celeberrimum Epistola. Hamburg u. Amsterdam 1673 ( digitized version , copy from the Herzog August Library ).
Anon. German practice udT From gold making. Bayreuth 1704 etc.

Literature (selection)

  • Italo Michele Battafarano: Vico and Morhof. In: Italo Michele Battafarano: From Andreae to Vico. Studies on the relationship between German and Italian literature in the 17th century. with a report on Italian research on German literature of the 16th and 17th centuries. (1945–1978) (= Stuttgart work on German studies. 66). Akademischer Verlag Heinz, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-88099-067-0 , pp. 171-198.
  • Adalbert Elschenbroich:  Morhof, Daniel Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 127 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Marie Kern: Daniel Georg Morhof. Vorderpfälzische Genossenschafts-Druckerei, Landau / Pfalz 1928, (Freiburg im Breisgau, University, dissertation 1928).
  • Knut Kiesant: On the reception of late medieval literature in the 17th century. Daniel Georg Morhof. In: German literature of the Middle Ages. Vol. 3, 1986, ISSN  0233-1217 , pp. 376-385.
  • Sigmund von Lempicki: History of German literary studies up to the end of the 18th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1920, pp. 117–120, 150–171 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ), (2nd, revised edition with an index of subjects and persons as well as a chronological catalog raisonné. Ibid 1968).
  • Rochus von Liliencron :  Morhof, Daniel Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 236-242.
  • Thomas Neukirchen : Inscriptio. Rhetoric and poetics of the astute inscription in the Baroque era (= studies on German literature. 152). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-18152-4 (also: Berlin, Technical University, dissertation, 1997).
  • Françoise Waquet (Ed.): Mapping the World of Learning. The "Polyhistor" of Daniel Georg Morhof (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen. 91). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04399-7 .

List of works and references

Web links

Wikisource: Daniel Georg Morhof  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Daniel Georg Morhof's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Morhof, Daniel Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian and polyhistor
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1639
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1691
Place of death Lübeck near Bad Pyrmont