Literature year 1762
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Events
prose
- Volumes 5 and 6 of the nine-part novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne are published. In the same year the author went on a grand tour to France and Italy, where he met Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach and Denis Diderot, among others .
- Charlotte Lennox publishes her fourth novel Sophia .
- Sarah Fielding's latest novel Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the Defense of Socrates Before His Judges appears.
- Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Citizen of the World , a collection of fictional letters from a Chinese scholar allegedly residing in London.
Poetry
- The Croatian writer Matija Antun Relković wrote his most important work, Satyr or The Wild Man , a volume of didactic poems.
drama
- 5th January : The play Il re cervo ( King Deer ) by Carlo Gozzi has its world premiere at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice.
- January 18 : The comedy The Lord right of Voltaire is at the Comédie-Française premiered in Paris.
- January 22nd : The tragicomic fairy tale Turandot by Carlo Gozzi has its world premiere at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice. The material comes from a Persian story, which was also known in western cultures through the collection of fairy tales A Thousand and One Days ( hezār-o-yek rūz ).
- January 23 : The play Much Ado in Chiozza by Carlo Goldoni is in Venetischem dialect in the Teatro San Luca premiered in Venice.
- October 25th : The play La donna serpente ( The Woman as a Snake ) by Carlo Gozzi has its world premiere at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice.
- The comedy The Sister by Charlotte Lennox appears.
Scientific works
- In April, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's political science work Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique ( On the social contract or principles of constitutional law ) was published in Amsterdam and was immediately banned in France, the Netherlands, Geneva and Bern. An arrest warrant is issued against him in Paris and Geneva. His educational work Emile or Education , which appeared in the same year, is also banned.
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni , Professor of Anatomy at the University of Padua , has published an expanded edition of his six-part Adversaria Anatomica Omnia .
- In his book Introduction a la Philosophie naturelle , the Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek describes the Perseids for the first time as an annually recurring event.
- The first table volume ( Agriculture - Art militaire ) of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers by Denis Diderot and Louis de Jaucourt , indexed by the Catholic Church , appears.
painting
- Anton Raphael Mengs initially publishes the book, Thoughts on Beauty and on Flavors in Painting, anonymously , which is used as a textbook in numerous academies.
- Horace Walpole writes Some Anecdotes of Painting in England .
Others
- Diderot met Lawrence Sterne in the salon of Baron d'Holbach , who sent him the first part of his novel Tristram Shandy .
- Christoph Martin Wieland begins with his translation of the works of William Shakespeare , with which he will have a lasting impact on theater life in Germany. At the Komödienhaus in his hometown of Biberach an der Riss , a play by Shakespeare is performed in German for the first time in the same year, the comedy Der Sturm in Wieland's translation.
Born
- January 13 : Johann Gottfried Hagemeister , German actor, poet, publicist and teacher († 1806 )
- January 14 : Pierre-Édouard Lémontey , French writer, librettist and historian († 1826 )
- January 23 : Christian August Vulpius , German writer († 1827 )
- February 16 : Friederike Juliane von Schimmelmann , German nobleman, center of the Emkendorfer Kreis († 1816 )
- February 23 : Johanna Antoni , German writer († 1843 )
- April 12 : Louis Fauche-Borel , Swiss printer and bookseller († 1829 )
- April 13 : Louis-Charles Caigniez , French playwright († 1842 )
- April 22nd : Baruch Jeitteles , Bohemian rabbi, Talmudic scholar, writer and doctor († 1813 )
- May 19 : Johann Gottlieb Fichte , German philosopher († 1814 )
- July 19 : Karl Friedrich Christian Wilhelm von Sponeck , German forester, non-fiction author and professor († 1827 )
- August 9 : Mary Randolph , American housewife and author of household and cookbooks († 1828 )
- August 13 : Johann Christoph Sachse , German writer and library servant under JW v. Goethe († 1822 )
- August 15 : Johann Otto Thieß , German Lutheran theologian and writer († 1810 )
- September 11th : Joanna Baillie , British romantic poet († 1851 )
- September 28 : Michael Andreaš , Slovenian poet († 1821 )
- October 21 : George Colman the Younger , English writer († 1836 )
- October 28 : Karl Philipp Conz , German poet and writer († 1827 )
- October 29 : André Chénier , French writer († 1794 )
- November 10 : Wilhelm Ludwig Gottlob von Eberstein , German writer and philosopher († 1805 )
- November 10 : Johann Ludwig Klüber , German journalistic writer († 1837 )
- November 24th : António Pereira de Sousa Caldas , Brazilian poet and author († 1814 )
- November 25 : Leonhard Wächter , German writer († 1837 )
- December 21 : Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching , German polymath and lexicographer († 1800 )
- December 26th : Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis , Swiss poet († 1834 )
- Susanna Rowson , American writer and actress, († 1824 )
Died
- February 2 : Friedrich Zollmann , Saxon archivist, historian and cartographer (* 1690 )
- March 24 : Johann Gottfried Zentgrav , German Protestant theologian, rhetorician and literary scholar (* 1722 )
- May 27 : Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten , German philosopher (* 1714 )
- June 8 : Theophil Georgi , German bookseller, publisher and bibliographer (* 1674 )
- June 17th : Prosper Jolyot Crébillon , French playwright (* 1674 )
- June 26 : Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched , German writer (* 1713 )
- July 7th : Johann Georg Bock , German literary scholar and poet (* 1698 )
- August 21 : Mary Wortley Montagu , English writer (* 1689 )
- September 5 : Johann Christian Crell , Saxon notary, historiographer and bookseller (* 1690 )
- October 14 : Hieronymus Pez , Austrian Benedictine monk, philologist, historian and librarian (* 1685 )
- October 27 : Gottlob Sebastian von Lucke , German poet (* 1745 )
- December 13 : Jonathan Krause , German Protestant theologian and hymn poet (* 1701 )
- December: Mary Collyer , British writer and translator (* around 1716 / 17 )
- Richard Bathurst , British physician and writer (* 1722 / 23 )
Web links
Commons : 1762 books - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Austrian newspapers from 1762 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library