Literature year 1760
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Events
Ewald von Kleist
One year after the death of Ewald Christian von Kleist , a complete edition of his works is published for the first time in Berlin. The editor of the two-volume work is a longtime friend of Kleist, the poet and philosopher Karl Wilhelm Ramler .
drama
- June 26 : Voltaire's comedy The Coffee House or the Scottish Woman premieres.
- September 13 : Voltaire's tragedy Tancrède premieres.
Scientific works
The French dancer and choreographer Jean Georges Noverre wrote the theoretical treatise Lettres sur la Danse et sur les Ballets ( Letters on the Art of Dance ), one of the most important works on ballet to this day .
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann publishes the work Description des pierres gravées de feu Baron de Stosch in Florence on the collection of antique gems and gem impressions of Philipp von Stosch, who died in 1757 . In it he describes numerous Etruscan works of art such as the Stosch stone and the Etruscan scarab with Tydeus .
Title page of the trial of those diseases which arise from self-infliction
- The Swiss physician Samuel-Auguste Tissot published the work L'Onanisme in which he postulated that masturbation leads to diseases. The work went through numerous editions and translations.
Born
- January 30th : Jonas Rein , Norwegian poet († 1821 )
- March 28 : Georg Adlersparre , Swedish general, politician and writer († 1835 )
- April 14 : Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt , German pharmacist, chemist, technical writer († 1833 )
- May 10 : Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , French composer, poet and officer († 1836 )
- May 10 : Johann Peter Hebel , German poet († 1826 )
- May 11 : Ádam Pálóczi Horváth , Hungarian writer, folk song collector and composer († 1820 )
- November 14 : Joachim Bernhard Nicolaus Hacker , German theologian, poet and writer († 1817 )
Died
- May 1st : Christiana Mariana von Ziegler , Saxon writer (* 1695 )
- May 21 : Anna Nitschmann , Moravian song poet, member of the Moravian Brethren (* 1715 )
- August 12 : Karl Gotthelf Müller , German rhetorician, poet and Lutheran theologian (* 1717 )
- September 16 : Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron , French man of letters and writer (* 1706 )
- October 27 : Antonín Koniáš , Bohemian Jesuit priest, missionary and religious writer (* 1691 )
- October 30 : Christian Ludwig Liscow , German satirist (* 1701 )
Web links
Commons : 1760 books - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Austrian newspapers from 1760 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library