MORHOFF (Daniel George), a very learned German, born at Wismar in the duchy of Mecklenburgh, in 1639. The duke of Holstein, when he founded an university at Kiel, made him professor of eloquence and poetry there in 1665; to which was afterwards added the professorship of history, and in 1680 the office of librarian to the university. He was the author of many works of a small kind; as orations, dissertations, theses, and poems: but his chief work was his Polibistor, five de notitia auctorum et rerum commentarii; first published at Lubec in 1688; which has been greatly enlarged since his death in 1691, and gone through several successive editions.