Literature year 1761
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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 Julie or The New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau appears. |
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Events
prose
The epistle novel Letters of Two Lovers from a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps by Jean-Jacques Rousseau appears. The book, which later became better known under the name Julie or Die neue Heloise , became one of the greatest literary successes of the 18th century and had at least 70 editions by the end of it. Because of its socially critical content, the church put the book on the Librorum Prohibitorum index .
- The Danish diplomat Rochus Friedrich zu Lynar publishes the collection of stories Der Sonderling , intended for the moral edification of his servants , which also contains three stories that are commonly attributed to the "baron of lies" Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen .
- Volumes 3 and 4 of the nine-volume novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman of Laurence Sterne are published in London .
- Denis Diderot starts working on Le Neveu de Rameau .
- The English writer Sarah Fielding publishes the novel The History of Ophelia . In the same year the German translation of her novel The History of the Countess of Dellwyn appears , the story of the Countess of Dellwyn , the authorship of which, however , is attributed to her brother Henry .
drama
- Carlo Goldoni writes the comedy Le baruffe chiozzotte ( Much Noise in Chiozza ) in Venetian dialect .
- The existing before 1734 comedy L'échange by Voltaire experienced its world premiere in Paris and published in book form.
Scientific works
- January 3 : The scholarly contributions to the Braunschweigische advertisements , originally an integral part of the newspaper Braunschweigische advertisements , which first appeared in 1745 , are separated from the "advertisements" and from then on published separately. The first editor of these scientific articles is Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae .
- On June 13th, the astronomer Georg Christoph Silberschlag publishes his findings from the Venus transit of June 6th and his thesis about the atmosphere of Venus in the Magdeburgische Privilegierte Zeitung and on this occasion also puts forward theories about life on Venus .
- At the age of 80, the Venetian physician and anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni , professor at the University of Padua , published his main work, the five books De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis ( On the seat and the causes of diseases, traced through anatomy ) and thus founded modern pathology .
- The essay Essai de Chymie Méchanique by Georges-Louis Le Sage , in which Le Sage gravity is described in detail, is published for the first time.
Translations
- Weidmann published the translation of Charlotte Lennox 's third novel Henrietta under the title Henriette in Leipzig .
Born
- January 26 : Jens Zetlitz , Norwegian poet († 1821 )
- March 8 : Jan Graf Potocki , Polish novelist, historian and ethnologist († 1815 )
- March 11th : Friedrich Vieweg , German publisher, founder of Vieweg Verlag († 1835 )
- May 3 : August von Kotzebue , German playwright and writer († 1819 )
- July 25 : Charlotte von Kalb , German writer († 1843 )
- September 21 : Matthias Conrad Peterson , Norwegian journalist († 1833 )
- October 2 : Karl Friedrich Reinhard , French diplomat, statesman and writer († 1837 )
- November 1 : Angelo Anelli , Italian librettist and writer († 1820 )
Died
- March 19 : Johann Rudolf Gruner , Swiss pastor, collector and chronicler (* 1680 )
- July 4th : Samuel Richardson , British writer (* 1689 )
- August 3 : Johann Matthias Gesner , Bavarian pedagogue, classical philologist and librarian (* 1691 )
- September 8 : Charlotte Elisabeth Nebel , German hymn poet and author of edification (* 1727 )
Web links
Commons : 1761 books - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Austrian newspapers from 1761 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library