Literature year 1763

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Literature year 1763
Voltaire publishes Traité sur la tolérance on the rehabilitation of the murder victim Jean Calas .

Events

prose

• Due to the death of Cao Xueqin , his novel The Dream of the Red Chamber , one of China's four classic novels , remains unfinished.

drama

• The first version of Carlo Goldoni's prose comedy Il Ventaglio ( The Fan ) is premiered in Paris under the name L´éventail . Since she did not have the expected success in the foreign environment for various reasons, Goldoni revised her over the next two years.
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing begins work on the comedy Minna von Barnhelm in Breslau .

Periodicals

• March 2nd : The first edition of the Hersfelder Zeitung appears. It will have to be suspended again on December 25th for cost reasons.

Scientific works, essays

Title page of the second volume

• The second volume ( Balancier - Charpenterie ) 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. Volume 2b ( Charron drapery ) was also published in the same year .

• Voltaire publishes Traité sur la tolérance . The writing was created as a result of the trial of the Huguenot Jean Calas , who was innocently sentenced to death and executed. The process is under revision and the Calas family is rehabilitated on March 6, 1765 . Voltaire calls for tolerance against those of different faiths and takes a vehement stand against religious fanaticism and superstition.

religion

• Immanuel Kant : The only possible evidence for a demonstration of the existence of God
• The Pope-critical work De statu ecclesiae et legitima potestate Romani pontificis liber singularis appears under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius , which was published by Pope Clement XIII as early as the next year . is placed on the Librorum Prohibitorum index , but this cannot prevent the spread of Febronianism in Europe. The Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim , was revoked years later after his exposure as an author.

Others

• Catherine II of Russia begins an exchange of letters with Voltaire .

Born

• January 29 : Johann Gottfried Seume , German writer and poet († 1810 )
• February 14 : Johann Martin Usteri , Swiss poet († 1827 )
• March 9 : William Cobbett , English writer († 1835 )
• March 21 : Jean Paul , German writer († 1825 )
• June 15 : Kobayashi Issa , Japanese haiku poet († 1828 )
• September 2 : Caroline Schelling , German writer ("femme de lettres") († 1809 )
• October 20 : Joachim Perinet , Austrian actor and writer († 1816 )

Died

• January 29 : Johan Ludvig , Danish Chancellor, art and literature collector (* 1694 )
• January 29th : Louis Racine , French poet (* 1692 )

• February 12 : Pierre Carlet de Marivaux , French writer (* 1688 )
• April 24 : Charles-Étienne Pesselier , French author, poet, Fermier général and encyclopaedist (* 1711 )
• June 29th : Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht , Swedish poet (* 1718 )

• August 12 : Olof von Dalin , Swedish poet, writer, satirist and historian (* 1708 )

• September 26 : John Byrom , English writer (* 1692 )
• November 23 : Antoine-François Prévost , French writer (* 1697 )
• November: Giovanni Claudio Pasquini , Italian poet and librettist (* 1695 )

• around 1763: Cao Xueqin , Chinese writer (* 1715/1724)

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