Michael Christoph Hanow

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Michael Christoph Hanow (also Hanov, Hanovius) (12 December 1695, Zamborst near Neustettin, Pomerania – 22 September 1773, Danzig) was a German meteorologist, historian, professor of mathematics and since 1717 Rector of Academic Gymnasium Danzig.

Hanow was educated in Danzig and Leipzig and was a private Teacher in Dresden, Leipzig und Danzig. In the year 1727 he became a Member of the Academic Gymnasium Danzig. He wrote numerous articles and books. Since 1739 he published the Danziger Nachrichten a weekly journal with Weather forecasting. The term Biology was introduced by him. In the years 1745 until 1767 he wrote Jus Culmense, the complete Kulm law (Kulmer Recht) and a collection of until to date not published prussian documents.

Together with Georg Daniel Seyler, Gottfried Lengnich and David Braun he belonged to the most importand 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

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Name	Hanow, Michael Christoph
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Short description	German historian and scientist
Date of birth	1695
Place of birth
Date of death	1773
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