Literature year 1749
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Madame du Châtelet – Laumont († 1749)
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Events
- The comedy Die Juden by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing has its world premiere in Berlin.
- January 3rd : Kjøbenhavnske Danske Post-Tidender , the forerunner of today's Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende, appears for the first time in Copenhagen .
- February 28th : The Marquise de Pompadour makes an exception for the only time and includes a tragedy with Alzire, her favorite Voltaire, in the program at the court of Versailles . In contrast, not a single tragedy of Racine or Corneille had been played. For the repetition of the piece, the mistress Louis XV. even enforce that the author of the respective play was allowed to be present. Voltaire received this late honor only once. Other playwrights did not achieve this honor because the theater troupe was discontinued a little later for financial reasons.
- July 24th : Denis Diderot is imprisoned in Vincennes for a few weeks because of the publication of Pensées philosophiques and Lettre sur les aveugles .
- The German poet and Prussian officer Ewald Christian von Kleist is promoted to staff captain.
- Oliver Goldsmith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College , Dublin .
- September 10 : After the death of Émilie du Châtelet , Voltaire accepts Frederick II's invitation to Prussia , which he will accept the following summer.
New releases
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Charlotte Turner Smith drawn by George Romney
Dominique Joseph Garat on a painting by Johann Friedrich Dryander from 1794 .
Books
- John Cleland - The Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez
- John Gilbert Cooper - The Life of Socrates
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Henry Fielding
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- The True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez (in response to Cleland)
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Sarah Fielding
- The Governess
- Remarks on 'Clarissa
- Eliza Haywood - Dalinda
- Aaron Hill - Gideon
- William Mason - Isis
- Gilbert West - Odes of Pindar
drama
- Anonymous - Tittle Tattle (adaptation of Swift's Genteel and Ingenious Conversations )
- Carlo Goldoni - La vedova scaltra ; La putta onorata
- William Hawkins - Henry and Rosamund
- Aaron Hill - Meropé
- Samuel Johnson - Irene
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - The Jews ; Samuel Henzi
- Jean-François Marmontel - Aristomène , tragedy
- Tobias Smollett - The Regicide
- James Thomson - Coriolanus
- Voltaire - Nanine and Sémiramis
Poetry
- John Brown , On Liberty
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William Collins :
- Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson - James Thomson died in August 1748
- "The Passions"
- Thomas Cooke - An Ode on Beauty , published anonymously
- Joseph Dumbleton - "A RHAPSODY on RUM", a popular poem about the destructive effects of rum consumption; first published in the South Carolina Gazette and later published in various daily newspapers in colonial North America
- Aaron Hill - Gideon; or, The Patriot
- Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes: The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitated
- Henry Jones - Poems on Several Occasions
- Ewald Christian von Kleist - The spring
- William Mason - Isis: To elegy
- Edward Moore - An ode to David Garrick upon the talk of the town
- Johann Peter Uz - Lyric Poems
- Gilbert West - Odes of Pindar
Non-fiction / scientific literature
- Joseph Ames - Typographical Antiquities
- George Berkeley - A Word to the Wise
- Thomas Birch - Historical view of Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels 1592-1617
- John Brown - On Liberty
- William Rufus Chetwood - A General History of the Stage
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac - Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines
- Denis Diderot - Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient
- David Hartley - Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations
- David Hume - Inquiry concerning Human Understanding ; Three essays
- Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes
- William Law - The Spirit of Prayer
- Aeschil Nordholm - Jemtland's Djur catches
- Lauritz de Thurah - Den Danske Vitruvius , volume II
- Paul Rapin de Thoyras - Brief explanation or core of the history of England up to the death of Queen Anna.
- Henry St. John - Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism
- Voltaire - Sermon des cinquante
- John Wesley - A Plain Account of the People Called Methodists
Born
- January 13 : Friedrich Müller , German painter, engraver and poet of Sturm und Drang († 1825 )
- January 16 : Vittorio Alfieri , Italian poet († 1803 )
- February 17 : Nikolaus Kindlinger , German Catholic priest, collector of manuscripts and seals, archivist, editor and writer († 1819 )
- March 10 : Lorenzo da Ponte , Italian librettist in Vienna († 1838 )
- March 16 : Joseph Richter , Austrian writer († 1813 )
- March 17 : Charles-Nicolas Favart , French actor and writer († 1806 )
- March 25 : Johanne Friederike Lohmann , German writer († 1811 )
- March 26 : Karl Martin Plümicke , German playwright († 1833 )
- April 9 : Camillo Federici , Italian comedy poet († 1802 )
- April 19 : Ōta Nampo , Japanese writer († 1823 )
- May 4 : Charlotte Turner Smith , English writer, poet and translator of French prose († 1806 )
- June 5 : Jenny von Voigts , German writer and daughter of Justus Möser († 1814 )
- August 21 : Edvard Storm , Norwegian poet and teacher († 1794 )
- August 28 : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet and scholar († 1832 )
- August 29 : Franz Heinrich Bispink , German writer, bookseller and publisher († 1820 )
- August 31 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Radishchev , Russian philosopher and writer († 1802 )
- September 1 : Lorenz Leopold Haschka , Austrian poet († 1827 )
- September 7th : Anton Matthias Sprickmann , German writer and lawyer († 1833 )
- September 8 : Dominique Joseph Garat , French politician and writer († 1833 )
- September 11 : Justus Perthes , German bookseller and publisher († 1816 )
- November 17 : Johann Erich Biester , German philosopher († 1815 )
- December 27th : Sophie Eleonore von Kortzfleisch , German writer († 1823 )
- undated: Johann Christian Henrici , German rhetorician and archaeologist († 1818 )
- undated: Menachem Mendel Lefin , Hebrew writer and important representative of the first period of the Galician-Russian Haskala († 1826 )
Died
- January 22nd : Matthew Concanen , English poet (* 1701 )
- May : Samuel Boyse , English poet and playwright (* 1708 )
- May 9 : Solomon Heinrich Vestring , Livonian clergyman and man of letters, author of one of the first comprehensive Estonian-German dictionaries (* 1663 )
- June 19 : Ambrose Philips , English poet (* 1675 )
- July 17 : Samuel Henzi , Swiss writer, politician and revolutionary (* 1701 )
- August 13 : Johann Elias Schlegel , German poet, lawyer and poetry theorist (* 1719 )
- September 10 : Émilie du Châtelet , French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, friend of Voltaire and translator of Isaac Newton 's Principia and Salonière (* 1706 )
- September 19 : Johann Friedrich Menz , German philosopher, literary scholar and physicist (* 1673 )
- November 20 : Beat Ludwig von Muralt , Swiss representative of the early Enlightenment and radical Pietism (* 1665 )
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Schultz: Madame de Pompadour or Love in Power. CH Beck, Munich 2004, p. 158.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Cox, Michael (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .
- ^ S. Daniel 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 .