Literature year 1759

Literature year 1759
Voltaire publishes the satirical novella Candide or Optimism under a pseudonym , which is immediately banned by censors in France.

The Gentleman's Magazine , May 1759

Events

Voltaire publishes the satirical novella Candide or Optimism under a pseudonym in Geneva , which is immediately banned by the censors in France.
The first two volumes of the nine-part novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne are published.
Samuel Johnson publishes the political and educational novel History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia .
The English writer Sarah Fielding publishes the novel The History of the Countess of Dellwyn .
Laurence Sterne begins writing The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, he will finish it in 1768.

The first German translation of Montesquieu's Persian letters by Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn appears under the title Des Herr de Montesquiou [sic!] Persianischebriefe in Frankfurt and Leipzig.

January 23 : The French parliament condemns Helvétius De l'esprit ( Of the Spirit ) and the Encyclopédie
March 4 : The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers by Denis Diderot is added to the church index Librorum Prohibitorum . Several employees, including Turgot and Marmontel , withdraw from the project. Associate editor Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert is also withdrawing from the project.

Robert Symmer publishes his chiliastic theory of electricity (with the fluid hypothesis ).

January 25 : Robert Burns , Scottish writer and poet († 1796 )
January 28 : Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Meyer , German lawyer, scholar, librarian, publicist and playwright († 1840 )
February 1 : Karl Friedrich Hensler , Austrian theater director († 1825 )
April 19 : August Wilhelm Iffland , German actor, theater director and playwright († 1814 )
April 27 : Mary Wollstonecraft , English writer and suffragette († 1797 )

Schiller's birthplace in Marbach am Neckar

November 10 : Friedrich Schiller , German poet, playwright and historian († 1805 )

June 12 : William Collins , English poet (* 1721 )
August 7th : Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier , Prussian philosopher, rhetorician, linguist (* 1673 )
August 24 : Ewald Christian von Kleist , Prussian poet and officer (* 1715 )

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