Literature year 1764
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Overview of the literature years
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 celebrates success on the Parisian stages with his comedy La jeune indienne . |
Events
prose
- With the novel The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto ( The Castle of Otranto ), the British politician and writer Horace Walpole founded the genre of the horror novel .
- Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Historie de Miss Jenny is printed in Paris by Brocas & Humblot.
- John Cleland publishes The Surprises of Love , four romantic short stories.
- Christoph Martin Wieland writes the novel Don Silvio von Rosalva, or the victory of nature over enthusiasm .
- The story Wilhelmine is published by Moritz August von Thümmel .
drama
- The 24-year-old Nicolas Chamfort celebrates successes on the Parisian stages with his comedy La jeune indienne ( The Young Indian Woman ), which is based on the popular theme of the contrast between the state of nature and culture.
Periodicals
- July 14 : Karl Gottlieb von Windisch publishes the first edition of the Pressburger Zeitung together with the printer and publisher Johann Michael Landerer in Pressburg . It appears twice a week.
- October 29 : The Hartford Courant is published in Hartford , Connecticut for the first time as a weekly edition.
Non-fiction
philosophy
- The Milanese lawyer and legal philosopher Cesare Beccaria publishes his most famous work Dei delitti e delle pene ( On crimes and punishments ). In this work, which is shaped by the ideas of the Enlightenment and utilitarian ethics, he advocates the thesis that the state should only impose the level of punishment that is necessary to maintain order. The principle of proportionality should be observed when determining the sentence . It is not the severity of the punishment that is decisive, but the consistent application of the criminal laws. Beccaria rejects torture and the death penalty . The book will be translated into several languages.
- Voltaire publishes his philosophical dictionary Dictionnaire philosophique in Geneva anonymously with Gabriel Grasset. The first edition with the title Dictionnaire philosophique portatif with 73 headwords was expanded by Voltaire in 1765, 1767 and 1769 by two volumes with 120 headwords. The book, a declaration of war against the Christian religion and the Catholic Church, was burned in Geneva in the same year and on March 19, 1765 in Paris.
- Thomas Reid is the author of the philosophical work An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense at the University of Aberdeen .
Natural sciences
- Otto Friedrich Müller publishes the work Fauna Insectorum Fridrichsdalina , which among other things contains the first description of the early reed hunter , in which, however, he describes the male and the female as different species.
- The Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich publishes the work Ornithologia borealis , which contains Scandinavian birds, which are described here for the first time. In the same year he also published the Entomologia .
Art history
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann publishes the history of ancient art in two volumes.
religion
- February 27 : Pope Clement XIII. prohibits reading the book De statu ecclesiae et legitima potestate Romani pontificis liber singularis , published under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius the year before, and puts it on the index Librorum Prohibitorum . The spread of the thoughts of Febronianism through multiple reprints does not stop that. The Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim , was revoked years later after his exposure as an author.
Book trade
- Several north German booksellers under the leadership of Leipzig's Philipp Erasmus Reich decide to stay away from the Catholic-dominated Frankfurt Book Fair in future and only present their newcomers at the Leipzig Book Fair .
Born
First half of the year
- February 11 : Marie-Joseph Chénier , French writer and playwright of the revolutionary era († 1811 )
- February 15 : Jens Immanuel Baggesen , Danish writer († 1826 )
- February 19 : Karl Heinrich Heydenreich, German writer and philosopher († 1801 )
- February 25 : Karl Gustav Brinckmann , German-Swedish diplomat and poet († 1847 )
- March 23 : Friedrich Schmidt von Werneuchen , Prussian Protestant clergyman and poet († 1838 )
- April 1 : Johann Evangelist Reiter , German Catholic pastor, geometer, fresco painter, sculptor, stonemason, musician, architect and writer († 1835 )
- April 14th : Firmin Didot , French typographer and writer († 1836 )
- April 14 : Franz Xaver Gewey , Austrian civil servant, actor and writer († 1819 )
- April 20 : Rudolph Ackermann , German-British bookseller, lithographer, publisher and entrepreneur († 1834 )
- April 21 : Johann Christian August Heyse , German educator, grammarian and lexicographer († 1829 )
- April 27 : Johann Friedrich Cotta , German publisher, industrial pioneer and politician († 1832 )
- May 2 : Friedrich von Gentz , German-Austrian writer and publicist, state theorist and politician († 1832 )
- May 7 : Therese Huber , German writer († 1829 )
- May 11 : Konrad Engelbert Oelsner , German publicist († 1828 )
- May 18 : Johann Andreas Christian Löhr , German Protestant theologian and youth writer († 1823 )
- June 7th : Karl Heinrich von Lang , Bavarian historian and publicist († 1835 )
- June 13 : Erduin Julius Koch , German literary historian († 1834 )
- June 23 : Gabriel-Marie Legouvé , French writer, translator and dramaturge († 1812 )
Second half of the year
- July 9 : Ann Radcliffe , English writer, popular proponent of the horror novel († 1823 )
- July 19 : Christoph Cölestin Mrongovius , Prussian Protestant pastor, writer, philosopher, linguist, teacher and translator († 1855 )
- July 27 : John Thelwall , British political speaker, journalist and author († 1834 )
- August 9 : Caroline Auguste Fischer , German writer and women's rights activist († 1842 )
- September 5 : Henriette Herz , German writer and host of a literary salon († 1847 )
- September 14 : Ludwig Ferdinand Huber , German writer, translator and journalist († 1804 )
- October 6 : Johann Gottfried Ebel , German geographical writer († 1830 )
- October 6 : Friedrich Jacobs , German classical philologist, numismatist and writer († 1847 )
- October 19 : Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy , French soldier, politician, writer and librettist († 1846 )
- October 22 : Johann Georg Tinius , German theologian, bibliomaniac and criminal († 1846 )
Dorothea Schlegel ( Anton Graff )
- October 24 : Dorothea Brendel Mendelssohn , German literary critic and romantic writer, wife of Friedrich Schlegel († 1839 )
- November 15 : Hans von Held , German civil servant and writer († 1842 )
- November 22 : Juliane von Krüdener , German-Baltic Pietist, advisor to the Russian Tsar and writer († 1824 )
- December 3 : Mary Ann Lamb , English writer († 1847 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Karl Friedrich Benkowitz , German playwright and poet († 1807 )
- Rudolf Gräffer , Austrian publisher († 1817 )
- Karl Gottfried Jehnichen , German educator and literary scholar († 1790 )
- Christiane Sophie Ludwig , German writer († 1815 )
- Gaetano Polidori , Italian-British writer and scholar († 1853 )
Died
- May 1st : Johann Gottfried Pilarik , German superintendent and hymn poet (* 1705 )
- May 3 : Francesco Algarotti , Italian writer, art critic and art dealer (* 1712 )
- May 10 : Christian Friedrich Henrici , Saxon lyricist Johann Sebastian Bachs (* 1700 )
- June 3 : Hans Adolph Brorson , Danish bishop and psalmist (* 1694 )
- June 11 : Johann Siegmund Strebel , German librarian and administrative clerk (* 1700 )
- June 25 : Wilhelm Ernst Starke , German Reformed theologian, philologist and hymn poet (* 1692 )
- July 30 : Philipp Hafner , Austrian writer and literary critic (* 1735 )
- September 17 : Johann Christoph Struchtmeyer , German Reformed theologian, historian and rhetorician (* 1698 )
- October 23 : Pierre-Charles Roy , French librettist (* 1683 )
- November 4th : Charles Churchill , English poet and satirist (* 1732 )
- December 20 : Erik Pontoppidan the Younger , Danish theologian, preacher, historian and author (* 1698 )
- December 22nd : Ladislaus Amade von Várkonyi , Hungarian poet (* 1703 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Books 1764 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
- Austrian newspapers from 1764 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library