Literature year 1707

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Literature year 1707
Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777)	Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) (Portrait of Alessandro Longhi )
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)	Isaac Newton publishes Arithmetica Universalis
Philibert de Gramont (1621–1707)	Carl Desiderius de Royer (around 1650–1707) with poet's laurel in the title copper of his epigram Musae juveniles , 1690
Takarai Kikaku (1661–1707)	Tite copper: Kaspar von Stieler (1632–1707) from Der Teutsche Advokat , Nuremberg, Hofmann 1678
The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter by Richard Baxter (1615–1691) appear posthumously	George Farquhar (c. 1677–1707) published The Beaux 'Stratagem
Alain-René Lesage writes the two comedies Don César Ursin and Crispin rival de son maître	Prosper Jolyot Crébillon premieres the tragedy Atrée et Thyeste
Colley Cibber sees his two plays The Lady's Last Stake and The Double Gallant performed	Erdmann Neumeister's very latest way of arriving at pure and gallant poetry was published in 1707
Isaac Watts brings the Hymns and Spiritual Songs out	Isaac Newton writes his Arithmetica Universalis ( Godfrey Kneller , National Portrait Gallery London , 1702 )
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury publishes his ironic science letter concerning Enthusiasm	Jonathan Swift publishes A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
Self-portrait of Francesco Galli da Bibiena in the Uffizi Gallery	Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert publishes Le Factum de la France

Events

0May 1 : Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot openly support the Act of Union 1707 , which creates the legal basis for the unification of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland . The law is passed in quick succession by the English Parliament and the Scottish Parliament and comes into force on May 1, 1707. This creates the Kingdom of Great Britain and replaces the two aforementioned parliaments with the British Parliament .
0September 9 : Richard Steele marries Mary Scurlock . One of the most famous literary couples because of their correspondence of over 400 letters.
The publisher Edmund Curll announces that he will publish Matthew Priors Poems on Several Occasions , even if the author's rights were not cleared.
The German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer and historical geographer Johann Matthias Hase earned his master's degree in philosophy with the treatise “Specimen algebrae ad artem fortificatoriam applicatae”.
Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling becomes a full professor for "history and eloquence" at the Friedrichs-Universität-Halle, which was only founded in 1694 .
The first book printing company is founded in Havana , Cuba .
The English satirist, author and innkeeper Ned Ward publishes the last copies of his work Hudibras Redivivus , in which he attacked the ruling class in England, the Whigs .
An English thief is publicly hanged in Tyburn . This event serves as the basis for the folk song Sam Hall twelve years later .
The Italian scenographer, architect, set designer and decorative painter Francesco Galli da Bibiena went to Nancy in 1707 at the court of the Duke of Lorraine to build a large theater for him in the capital of the Duchy.
The French bookseller, author, translator, printer and publisher Jean Frédéric Bernard , who mainly operates in the Netherlands, returns to Amsterdam after completing his apprenticeship and training periods as well as his first professional successes in Geneva , where he worked for one of the most important European publishers of French-language works will.

The recommendation “ Tant qu'on laisse faire la nature ” (“Let nature do it”) can be found in a memorandum by Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert in 1707 .

The shipwrecked Alexander Selkirk , role model for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, sees a ship off the coast of Isla Más a Tierra for the first time . The hostile Spaniards discover Selkirk and pursue him into the island's jungle, where they lose his track.

0December 2 : The French military and poet Jacques-Louis de Valon, Marquis de Mimeure , is accepted as a member of the Académie française on the initiative of François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti , Marquise de Montespan and not in particular Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux .

New releases

prose

Anonymous - La guerre d'Espagne, de Baviere, et de Flandre, ou Memoires du Marquis d ***
Anonymous - Memoirs of the Court of England (Translation)
- - The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King-maker (transl.)
Richard Baxter - The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter (posthumous)
Thomas Brown - The Works of Mr Thomas Brown
Aaron Hart - Urim v'tumim (the first Hebrew language book to be published in London)
Alain-René Lesage - Crispin, rival de son maître ( Crispin as his master's rival ) and Le Diable boiteux ( The Limping Devil ), translation of a novel by Luis Vélez de Guevara
Delarivier Manley - The Lady's Pacquet of Letters
John Oldmixon - The Muses Mercury (Periodicals)
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester - The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon

drama

Joseph Addison - Rosamund (Opera)
Susanna Centlivre - The Platonick Lady
Colley Cibber - The Lady's Last Stake
- - The Double Gallant
Prosper Jolyot Crébillon - Atrée et Thyeste
George Farquhar - The Beaux 'Stratagem ( Galante Listen; also: Liebes-Schlachten-Lenker )
Alain-René Lesage - Don César Ursin and Crispin rival de son maître
Peter Anthony Motteux - Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (opera)
Nicholas Rowe - The Royal Convert
Nahum Tate - Injur'd Love (adaptation of Webster's The White Devil )

Poetry

Samuel Cobb , Poems on Several Occasions
Benjamin Colman , "A Poem on Elijah's Translation, occasioned by the death of Rev. Samuel Willard"
François Pétis de la Croix - Contes turcs
Erdmann Neumeister - The very latest way to arrive at pure and gallant poetry , edited by Christian Friedrich Hunold
John Pomfret - Quae Rara, Chara: A poem on Panthea's confinement
Charles Sedley - The Poetical Works
Nahum Tate - The Triumph of Union
Isaac Watts - Hymns and Spiritual Songs , (soon to be reissued)
John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester - The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honorable the Late Earls of Rochester And Roscommon. With The Memoirs of the Life and Character of the late Earl of Rochester, in a Letter to the Dutchess of Mazarine. By Mons. St. Evremont , London: Printed & sold by B. Bragge; second edition in the same year, London: Printed for Edmund Curll (third edition, 1709)

Non-fiction

Michael Alberti - Epist. Gratul de mysterio neturae in medicina
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury - Letter concerning Enthusiasm
Jean de Beaugué - Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse (translation by Patrick Abercromby )
Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert - Le Factum de la France
Augustin Calmet - La Sainte Bible en latin et en françois, avec un commentaire littéral et critique (Bible commentary published in 23 volumes up to 1716 )
Anthony Collins - Essay Concerning the Use of Reason
Thomas d'Urfey - Stories, Moral and Comical
Laurence Echard - The History of England vol. 1
Francis Hauksbee - Extraordinary electricity of glass producible by a smart attrition
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre - Principes de la flûte traversière, ou flûte d'Allemagne, de la flûte à bec ou flûte douce et du hautbois, divisez par traictez
Nicolas Lémery - Traité de l'Antimoine
Nicolas Malebranche - Traité de l'amour de Dieu
Heinrich Meissner - One of Hamburg's arithmetic masters answer
Jacob von Melle - Notitia maiorum
Maximilien Misson - Le Théâtre sacré des Cévennes and Avertissements prophétiques d'Elie Marion
Isaac Newton - Arithmetica Universalis
D. Papin - Nouvelle manière d'élever l'eau par la force du feu
Johann Friedrich Schannat - The story of the Counts of Mansfeld
Wouter Schouten - Reistogt naar en door Oost-India ( The journey to East India . Revised new edition by Andries van Damme )
Thomas Smith - Vitæ quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum
Jonathan Swift - A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
Matthew Tindal - A Defense of the Rights of the Christian Church
Catherine Trotter - A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies
Andreas Werckmeister - Musical Paradoxal Discourse (posthumous)

Born

Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788), portrait by François-Hubert Drouais

Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

0January 2 : Johann Adam Lehmus , German hymn poet († 1788 )
January 13 : John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork , English author († 1762 )
February 14 : Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon , French novelist and son of the tragedy poet Prosper Jolyot Crébillon († 1777 )
February 25 : Carlo Goldoni , Italian playwright and librettist († 1793 )
March 18 : Józef Baka , Polish poet, theologian and missionary († 1780 )
April 22 : Henry Fielding , English novelist, satirist, playwright, journalist, lawyer and literary critic († 1754 )
August 4th : Johann August Ernesti , German Protestant theologian, philologist, pedagogue and rector of the Thomas School in Leipzig († 1781 )
0September 7th : Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon , French naturalist († 1788 )
October 31 : Johann Philipp Cassel , German historian, theologian, philologist, teacher, translator and author of numerous writings († 1783 )
December 18 : Charles Wesley , English cleric, hymn poet and founder of Methodism († 1788 )
December 29th : Magdalena Sibylla Rieger , German poet († 1786 )

Died

George Farquhar (1677-1707)

Michiel de Swaen (1654–1707)

Jean Mabillon (1632–1707)

January 20 : Humphrey Hody , English theologian (* 1659 )

January 30th : Philibert de Gramont , French officer, court and nobleman at the court of Louis XIV and author of memoirs (* 1621 )

March 25th : Carl Desiderius de Royer , Lorraine-French-German Catholic priest, spiritual writer and poet in the dioceses of Metz and Worms (* around 1650 )

0April 1 : Takarai Kikaku , Japanese Haikai poet (* 1661 )

April 29 : George Farquhar , Irish playwright (* 1677 )

0May 3 : Michiel de Swaen , Dutch- speaking author from France (* 1654 )

June 23 : John Mill , English theologian (* around 1645 )

June 24th : Kaspar von Stieler , German poet, playwright, writer, scholar and linguist (* 1632 )

August 17th : Petter Dass , Norwegian poet and hymn poet (* around 1646 )

September 15 : George Stepney , English poet and diplomat (* 1663 )

September 23 : John Tutchin , English literary critic and journalist

September 24th : Vincenzo da Filicaja , Italian poet (* 1642 )

0October 5 : Daniel Speer , German writer and composer of the Baroque (* 1636 )

November 17 : Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel , German polyhistor, historiographer and numismatist (* 1659 )

December 27 : Jean Mabillon , French Benedictine monk, scholar and founder of the auxiliary historical sciences (* 1632 )

without exact date: Alexandre Exquemelin , pirate author (* around 1645 )

without exact date: Ehmedê Xanî , Kurdish writer, scholar and poet (* 1651 )

Web links

Portal: Literature - Overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of literature

Commons : Literary Works of 1707 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Austrian newspapers of 1807 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

↑ See Daniel Defoe : A tour thro 'the Whole Island of Great Britain, 1724-27. and Ders .: The Letters of Daniel Defoe. GH Healey editor. Oxford 1955.
^ Hensley C. Woodbridge, Lawrence S. Thompson: Printing in Colonial Spanish America. Whitson Publishing, Troy / NY 1976, quoted in: Hortensia Calvo: The Politics of Print: The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America. In: Book History. Vol. 6, 2003, p. 278.
^ Lynn Hunt / Margaret C. Jacob / Wijnand W. Mijnhardt: The book that changed Europe: Picart & Bernard's Religious ceremonies of the world. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2010 (1st edition 2001)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w Cox, Michael (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .
↑ Andrew Colin Gow: Hart, Aaron (1670-1756) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. 2004. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
↑ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7 , retrieved via Google Books
^ Sitter, John, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry , "Chronology", p xiv, (2001) Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-65885-0
^ "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)" Poetry Foundation, Retrieved January 27, 2013
↑ Original title: Oost-Indische voyagie; vervattende veel voorname voorvallen en ongemeene oreemde geschiedenissen, bloedige zee- en landtgevechten tegen de Portugeesen en Makassaren .. 1676. digitized on www.archive.org. Accessed on December 20, 2012.
^ Carl Desiderius Royer: Musae juveniles . Paris 1690, p. 10.

[1] See Daniel Defoe : A tour thro 'the Whole Island of Great Britain, 1724-27. and Ders .: The Letters of Daniel Defoe. GH Healey editor. Oxford 1955.

[2] Hensley C. Woodbridge, Lawrence S. Thompson: Printing in Colonial Spanish America. Whitson Publishing, Troy / NY 1976, quoted in: Hortensia Calvo: The Politics of Print: The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America. In: Book History. Vol. 6, 2003, p. 278.

[3] Lynn Hunt / Margaret C. Jacob / Wijnand W. Mijnhardt: The book that changed Europe: Picart & Bernard's Religious ceremonies of the world. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2010 (1st edition 2001)

[cocel-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w Cox, Michael (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .

[5] Andrew Colin Gow: Hart, Aaron (1670-1756) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. 2004. Retrieved December 9, 2011.

[dbcal-6] Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7 , retrieved via Google Books

[7] Sitter, John, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry , "Chronology", p xiv, (2001) Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-65885-0

[jwerpf-8] "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)" Poetry Foundation, Retrieved January 27, 2013

[9] Original title: Oost-Indische voyagie; vervattende veel voorname voorvallen en ongemeene oreemde geschiedenissen, bloedige zee- en landtgevechten tegen de Portugeesen en Makassaren .. 1676. digitized on www.archive.org. Accessed on December 20, 2012.

[10] Carl Desiderius Royer: Musae juveniles . Paris 1690, p. 10.