Michael Christoph Hanow
Michael Christoph Hanow (also Hanov, Hanovius) (12 December 1695, in
Danzig) was a German meteorologist, historian, professor of mathematics and since 1717 rector of the Academic Gymnasium Danzig
.
Hanow was educated in
Kulmer Recht
) and a collection of not yet published Prussian documents.
Together with Georg Daniel Seyler, Gottfried Lengnich and David Braun he belonged to the most important local historians in the 18th century.
Literature
- Michael Christoph Hanow: Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae dogmaticae: Geologia, biologia, phytologia generalis et dendrologia. 1766.
- Carl von Prantl, Works of Hanov, Michael Christoph. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie(ADB). volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, page 524 f.
External links
- Works of Hanow in the Catalog of the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek