Daniel Georg Morhof
Morhof, Daniel Georg (Wismar, 1639-91, Lübeck), was appointed professor of poetry at Rostock at the age of twenty-one and, on the foundation of Kiel University in 1665, became its first professor of poetry and rhetoric and, later, Rector. He visited England in 1660 and again in 1670. Morhof wrote undistinguished poetry in Latin and in German (Epigrammatum et jocorum centuria, 1659; Teutsche Gedichte, 1682); his chief and considerable merits were as a scholar. He is the author of a remarkable early history of German literature which includes the first German mention of Shakespeare, Unterricht von der Teutschen Sprache und Poesie, deren Ursprung, Fortgang und Lehrsätzen (1682, reissued 1969). After 1673 he turned his attention also to historiography and completed two volumes of a history of learning, Polyhistor sive de notitia auctorum et rerum commentarii (1688-92).
