Michael Christoph Hanow (also Hanov, Hanovius) (12 December 1695, in Zamborst near

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, Pomerania – 22 September 1773, in Danzig) was a German meteorologist, historian, professor of mathematics and since 1717

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of the Academic Gymnasium Danzig. Hanow was educated in Danzig and

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and was a private teacher in

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, Leipzig and 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

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. The term

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was introduced by him. In the years 1745 until 1767 he wrote ''Jus Culmense'', the complete Kulm law ('' Kulmer Recht'') and a collection of not yet published Prussian documents. Together with Georg Daniel Seyler,

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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:

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(ADB). volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, page 524 f.

External links

Works of Hanow
in the Catalog of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hanow, Michael Christoph 18th-century German historians 18th-century German mathematicians 1695 births 1773 deaths German male non-fiction writers People from the Province of Pomerania People from Złotów County 18th-century German male writers