Literature year 1736
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Events
- February 19 : World premiere of the ode Das Alexander-Fest by Georg Friedrich Handel in the Covent Garden Theater in front of 1,300 listeners. Newburgh Hamilton designed the text based on an ode by John Dryden from 1697.
- August 6 : The English printer and publisher William Parks founds the Virginia Gazette in Virginia, one of the oldest newspapers in North America, which was the first general-interest newspaper in this later state. The newspaper's motto is "Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestick". However, Parks above all brings news from all over the world that he and his circle of acquaintances have received by post. Events from Virginia are, with exceptions of regional significance - such as horse theft or an escaped slave - rather the rarity in his reporting. William Parks recognized the value of advertisements early on and placed a call to potential advertisers as early as October 1736.
- Charles Rivington founds a society of booksellers known as New Conger .
- After the death of Prince Eugene of Savoy , Charles VI. his entire library of around 15,000 volumes and incorporated them into the Imperial Court Library .
- The French composer, musician and music editor Antoine Mahaut travels to London , where he meets the publisher John Walsh , who publishes his Six Sonatas or Duets .
- The Portuguese enlightener, theologian, priest, philosopher, writer and thinker Luís António Verney is doing his doctorate in theology at the University of Évora .
- The Italian legal scholar, philologist and librarian Giovanni Lami received a position as librarian with the Riccardi family, who had been collecting valuable books and codes since the end of the 16th century. Four years later, Lami was appointed sole director of the Riccardiana Collection and held the position until his death in 1770.
- Friedrich, Crown Prince of Prussia , calls Charles Étienne Jordan to Rheinsberg and makes him his librarian and secretary.
- The Russian poet, scientist and reformer of the Russian language Michail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow is continuing his studies in Germany at the University of Marburg (especially with the philosopher Christian Wolff ) in the subjects of philosophy , mathematics , chemistry and physics .
- The later superintendent, associate professor, botanist, mycologist, entomologist and ornithologist Jacob Christian Schäffer began studying Protestant theology at the University of Halle .
- The pastor and hymn poet Christian Schumann works from now on in Pötewitz .
- The German-Danish composer and music critic Johann Adolf Scheibe moves to Hamburg , where he quickly becomes friends with Johann Mattheson and Georg Philipp Telemann .
- The Upper Lusatian homeland researcher and pastor Christian Knauthe begins his work in the Görlitz Trinity Church .
- Beginning of a restoration of the Great Burgung Chronicle (1480) by Diebold Schilling the Elder, which lasted until 1743 .
- Establishment of the first independent book printing company in Bogotá , Colombia .
- The term thesaurus can be found for the first time in the English modern era.
- The English mathematician and numismatists and later chairman of the Royal Society , Martin Folkes stops in front of the Society of Antiquaries a lecture on Observations on the Trojan and Antonine Pillars at Rome (dt .: Investigation Trojan and Antoni shear columns in Rome ) and Table of English Gold Coins from the 18th Year of King Edward III. (German: table of English gold coins from the 18th year of Edward III's reign ). The latter is published in 1745.
New releases
prose
- Johann Friedrich Bachstrom - Bey two hundred years unknown, but now discovered excellent land of the Inqvirans: From the narration of an elder of this blissful country who died after a protracted illness in our regions, According to all its customs, customs, regulations, worship, science, arts, Advantages and arrangements are described laboriously, and communicated to the common being for the best
- Eliza Haywood - Adventures of Eovaai (later also published under the title The Unfortunate Princess )
Translations
- Anonymous - The Life of Marianne (translation by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux )
- Joseph Addison - The Works of Petronius Arbiter
Poetry
- John Armstrong - The Economy of Love , published anonymously
- Johann Jakob Bodmer - Exchange of letters on the nature of poetic taste
- Isaac Hawkins Browne the Elder - A Pipe of Tobacco , published anonymously, mimicking Colley Cibber , Ambrose Philips , James Thomson , Edward Young , Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift
- Mather Byles - To His Excellency governeur Belcher, on the Death of His lady. To Epistle.
- Richard Owen Cambridge - On the Happy Nuptials of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Augusta Princess of Sax-Gotha
- William Dawson - Poems on Several Occasions , published anonymously; influenced by Alexander Pope
- Stephen Duck - Poems on Several Occasions
- Johann Christoph Gottsched - Mr. Johann Christoph Gottsched's poems
- William Melmoth - Two Episodes of Horace Imitated
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab - Kitab at-tawhidt
- Alexander Pope - The Works of Alexander Pope , Volumes 3: fables, translations and imitations; Volume 4 includes The Dunciad
- Elizabeth Rowe - The History of Joseph
- William Shenstone - The Schoolmistress
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James Thomson , last two parts of Liberty
- Britain , Part 4
- The Prospect , Part 5, the last part
drama
- Henry Carey - The Honest Yorkshireman
- Colley Cibber - Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John
- Henry Fielding - Pasquin
- Aaron Hill - Alzira
- George Lillo - The Fatal Curiosity
- James Miller - The Man of Taste
- Voltaire - Alzire and L'Enfant prodigue
Non-fiction
- Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens - Lettres juives ou Correspondance philosophique, historique et critique entre un juif voyageur à Paris et ses correspondans en divers endroits and Mémoires du marquis de Mirmon, ou le solitaire philosophe
- Pieter Burman the Elder (Ed.) - Suetonius
- John Armstrong - The Economy of Love
- Thomas Bayes - An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defense of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst
- Joseph Butler - Analogy of Religion
- Thomas Carte - Life of James Duke of Ormonde
- Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix - Histoire et description générale du Japon
- William Rufus Chetwood - The Voyages ... of William Owen Gwin Vaughan
- John Colson - Method of fluxions (translation from Latin into English after Isaac Newton's Methodus Fluxionum et Serierum Infinitarum , 1671)
- Leonhard Euler - Mechanica, sive motus scientia analytica exposita
- Johann August Ernesti - Initia doctrinae solidioris
- Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy - Défense de la nation Hollandoise, contre les calomnies répandues dans les Lettres sur les Hollandois, et dans la Méthode pour étudier l'histoire , Géographie des enfans, ou, Méthode abrégée de la géographie, divisée par leçons, ave list of principales cartes nécessaires aux enfans
- Johann Christoph Gottsched - Extensive rhetoric
- Jean-Baptiste Du Halde - Description de l'Empire de la Chine
- John Harris - Lexicon technicum (5th edition in two volumes)
- Johann Hübner - Lexicon genealogicum, This is: A directory of all high heads currently living in the political world (5th edition)
- Carl von Linné - Bibliotheca Botanica , Fundamenta Botanica , Methodus and Musa Cliffortiana
- Carl Günther Ludovici - Kurtzer draft of a complete history of Wolffian philosophy
- Michel Pignolet de Montéclair - Principes de Musique divisées en quatre classes
- Ignatz Mühlwenzel - Fundamenta mathematica ex arithmetica, geometria et trigonometria
- Isaac Newton - Method of Fluxions
- Alexander Pope - The Works of Alexander Pope vols. iii - iv
- François Quesnay - Essai phisique sur l'oeconomie animale
- Julius Bernhard von Rohr - Legal treatise on the fraud among the Heyraths
- Elizabeth Rowe - The History of Joseph
- Henning Scheunemann - Spagyric secrets (posthumous). In: Andreas Tentzel : Chymic-spagyric Artzney art
- William Stukeley - Palaeographia Sacra
- Aegidius Tschudi - Chronicon Helveticum Second Volume. Edited posthumously by Johann Rudolf Iselin (first volume, 1734 )
- James Thomson - Britain
- William Warburton - The Alliance Between Church and State (in response to Benjamin Hoadly's 1735 publication )
- Leonard Welsted - The Scheme and Conduct of Providence
Born
- February 16 : Helfrich Peter Sturz , German Enlightenment writer († 1779 )
- March: Rudolf Erich Raspe , German librarian, writer and polymath during the Enlightenment († 1794 )
- May 7 : Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan , French essayist († 1803 )
- May 10 : George Steevens , English literary scholar who specialized in the works of William Shakespeare († 1800 )
- June 3 : Konrad Grübel , Nuremberg dialect poet and street captain († 1809 )
- June 25 : John Horne Tooke , English writer († 1812 )
- June 28 : Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel , German writer, military scientist and educator from Alsace († 1809 )
- July 1 : Annis Boudinot Stockton , North American poet († 1801 )
- July 14 : Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet , French writer († 1794 )
- August 8 : Johann Georg Scheffner , German lawyer, writer, translator, Prussian civil servant, enlightener and Freemason († 1820 )
- August 31 : David Ellis , Welsh cleric of the Anglican Church, poet and translator († 1795 )
- September 16 : Johannes Nikolaus Tetens , German philosopher, mathematician, natural scientist of the Enlightenment († 1807 )
- October 27 : James Macpherson , Scottish poet and politician († 1796 )
- November 26 : Charles-Joseph Panckoucke , French writer and publisher († 1798 )
- November 30th : Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More , German philologist and Lutheran theologian († 1792 )
- December 4 : Charles de Vilette , French writer († 1793 )
- exact date unknown: Robert Jephson , Irish playwright († 1803 )
- exact date unknown: James Ridley , English writer († 1765 )
- exact date unknown: Percival Stockdale , English poet and opponent of slavery († 1811 )
Died
- February 3 : Tommaso Ceva , Italian Jesuit, poet and mathematician (* 1648 )
- February 9 : Barnaby Bernard Lintot , English publisher and bookseller
- March 13 : John Walsh , English music publisher and instrument maker (* around 1665 )
- March 31 : Frantz Vogt , German Lutheran theologian and poet (* 1661 )
- April 30th : Johann Albert Fabricius , German schoolmaster and bibliographer (* 1668 )
- July 16 : Thomas Yalden , English poet and translator (* 1670 )
- August 8 : Kada no Azumamaro , Japanese Shinto philologist (text researcher) and poet (* 1669 )
- August 13 : Johann Gottlieb Kraus , German historian and rhetorician (* 1684 )
- September 12 : David Oppenheimer , chief rabbi of Prague, regional rabbi of Moravia and Bohemia and Jewish scribe (* 1664 )
- October 21 : Paul Pfeffer , German lawyer, politician and sacred song writer (* 1651 )
- exact date unknown: Thomas Whittle , English poet, songwriter and artist (* 1683 )
Web links
Commons : Literary Works of 1736 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Austrian newspapers from 1736 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Londern Daily Post , 1736. February 20, German translation by: Friedrich Chrysander : GF Handel. 2nd volume. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1860, p. 426 f.
- ^ A History of The Virginia Gazette. On: www.vagazette.com. 2012. Accessed December 10, 2012.
- ^ Hortensia Calvo: The Politics of Print: The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America. In: Book History. Vol. 6, 2003, p. 278.
- ^ Jean Aitchison, Stella Dextre Clarke: The Thesaurus: A Historical Viewpoint, with a Look to the Future . In: Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 37, 3/4, 2004, pp. 5-21.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Michael Cox (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Richard M. Ludwig / Clifford A. Nault, Jr .: Annals of American Literature: 1602-1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Daniel S. Burt: 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 , accessed via Google Books
- ^ Johann Christoph Gottsched: Mr Johann Christoph Gottscheds poems. Viewed and edited by Johann Joachim Schwabe, Leipzig 1736.