Literature year 1758
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
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Noah Webster (1758-1843)
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Charlotte Lennox (1730–1804) published her novel Henrietta in 1758
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Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford , published A Dialogue Between Two Great Ladies in 1758
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Events
Title page of the 10th edition of the Systema Naturae
- April 15 : Samuel Johnson publishes the first issue of his magazine The Idler .
- April 24 : Robert Dodsley and his brother sign a contract with Edmund Burke to publish The Annual Register .
- Denis Diderot wrote the drama Le Père de famille ( The housefather ) and the theoretical work Discours sur la poésie dramatique ( Treatise on dramatic poetry )
- The French economist François Quesnay founded the physiocracy with his first economic cycle model, Tableau économique .
- The Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson is now in its sixth edition in just three years.
- In the 10th edition of his work Systema Naturae , Carl von Linné introduces the two-part naming scheme for animals as well, thus establishing the modern zoological nomenclature together with Carl Alexander Clerck .
- The French writer Jean-François Marmontel entered the service of Madame de Pompadour and, thanks to her temporary favor, acquired the “Mercure” privileges in 1758, which he lost again due to a satire against the Duke of Aumont.
- English writer Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her family move to Warrington, Cheshire .
- The French mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis moves to his last hometown, Basel .
- Voltaire purchases an estate in Ferney .
New releases
Carl Gottlob Cramer (1758–1817)
Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758–1818)
Wassili Wassiljewitsch Kapnist (1758–1823)
Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758–1841)
Johann Friedrich Freiherr von Cronegk (1731–1758) while writing his elegy An Chloris . Engraving by M. Bernigeroth, 1760.
prose
- John Armstrong under the pseudonym Launcelot Temple - Sketches
- Charlotte Lennox - Henrietta
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Horace Walpole
- A Dialogue Between Two Great Ladies
- Fugitive pieces
- Sir William Blackstone - A Discourse on the Study of the Law
drama
- John Cleland - Tombo-Chiqui, or, The American Savage
- Denis Diderot - Le père de famille
- Robert Dodsley - Cleone
- David Garrick - Florizel and Perdita
- John Home - Aegis
- Charlotte Lennox - Philander
- Arthur Murphy - The Upholsterer
- George Alexander Stevens - Albion Restored
Poetry
- Mark Akenside - An Ode to the Country Gentlemen
- John Gilbert Cooper - The Call of Aristippus
- Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim - Prussian war songs from a grenadier
- James Macpherson - The Highlander
- Thomas Parnell - Posthumous Works
Non-fiction
- William Battie - A Treatise on Madness
- William Blackstone - A Discourse on the Study of Law
- John Brown - An Explanatory Defense of the Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times
- Elizabeth Carter (Ed.) - All the Works of Epicetus
- Benjamin Franklin - Father Abraham's Sermon
- Oliver Goldsmith as James Willington - The Memoirs of a Protestant
- William Hawkins - Tracts in Divinity
- Claude Adrien Helvétius - De l'Esprit
- Henry Home - Historical Law Tracts
- Robert Lowth - The Life of William of Wykeham
- Dom Pernetty - Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique
- Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz - Histoire de la Louisiane
- Richard Price - A Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals
- Jonathan Swift - The History of the Last Four Years of the Queen
- Horace Walpole - A Catalog of the Royal and Noble Authors of England
- Arthur Young - The Theater of the Present War in North America
- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann - From the national pride
Born
- February 1 : Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten , Mecklenburg pastor and writer († 1818 )
- February 10 : Amalia Holst , German educator and women's rights activist († 1829 )
- February 23 : Wassili Wassiljewitsch Kapnist , Russian noble marshal of the Poltava governorate and writer († 1823 )
- March 3 : Carl Gottlob Cramer , German writer and forest adviser († 1817 )
- April 3 : Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez , Colombian journalist and librarian († 1819 )
- April 16 : Christian von Massenbach , Prussian colonel and writer († 1827 )
- April 25 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Schütz , German publicist († 1834 )
- August 29 : Franz Anton von Hartig , Austrian diplomat, historian, poet and geographer († 1797 )
- September 10 : Hannah Webster Foster : North American writer († 1840 )
- September 25 : Franz Michael Vierthaler , Austrian pedagogue, school reformer, writer and journalist († 1827 )
- October 5 : August Lafontaine , German writer († 1831 )
- October 15 : Benedikt David Arnstein , Austria's first dramatic German-speaking writer of Jewish origin († 1841 )
- October 16 : Noah Webster , American lexicographer, translator and writer († 1843 )
- November 16 : Peter Andreas Heiberg , Danish satirist († 1841 )
- November 19 : Carl Andreas von Boguslawski , German general, translator and author († 1817 )
- November 9 : Arnold Robens , secret clerk of the Jülich knighthood, legation secretary of the Electoral Palatinate Vogtmajor in Aachen and finally mayor of the city of Aachen and heraldist († 1820 )
- November 20 : Georg Friedrich Fickert , German hymn poet and pastor († 1815 )
- November 20 : Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de la Reynière , French lawyer, gastrosoph and writer († 1837 )
- December 8 : Engel Christine Westphalen , German writer († 1840 )
- December 23 : Franz Xaver Bronner , Swiss poet, publicist and archivist of German origin († 1850 )
- without exact date: James T. Callender , Scottish journalist and satirist († 1803 )
- without exact date: Giambattista Giusti , Italian engineer and translator († 1823 )
- without exact date: Józef Kopeć , Polish patriot, general and diary author († 1827 )
- without exact date: August Jacob Liebeskind , German pastor in Oßmannstedt, author and private tutor for the children of Johann Gottfried von Herders , as well as son-in-law Christoph Martin Wieland and fairy tale author († 1793 )
Died
- January 1 : Johann Friedrich von Cronegk , German playwright, poet and essayist (* 1731 )
- January 7th : Allan Ramsay , Scottish poet, playwright, librarian and wig maker (* 1685 )
- March 22 : Jonathan Edwards , British-American preacher (* 1703 )
- April 7th : Joachim Wilhelm von Brawe , German playwright (* 1738 )
- April 7 : Esther Edwards Burr , North American diary author (* 1732 )
- April 19 : Louis de Boissy , French writer and poet (* 1694 )
- May 10 : Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , German historian, librarian and lexicographer (* 1694 )
- July 15 : Ambrosius Stub , Danish poet (* 1705 )
- October 8 : Christoph Ludwig Crell , German literary and legal scholar (* 1703 )
- October: Theophilus Cibber , English actor, playwright and writer (* 1703 )
- November 28 : Margareta Klopstock , German writer and wife of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstocks (* 1728 )
- December 26 : François Joseph de Lagrange-Chancel , French playwright (* 1677 )
Web links
Commons : Literary Works of 1758 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Austrian newspapers from 1758 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library