Literature year 1765
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Overview of the literature years
Further events
Literature year 1765 | |
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Thomas Percy publishes the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry . |
Events
prose
- Denis Diderot begins work on his novel Jacques le fataliste et son maître ( Jacques the fatalist and his master ).
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg begins with his notebook book of cornucopia , which he kept until 1772 . He jots down excerpts from his reading, quotes and thoughts on various topics.
Poetry
- The Scottish writer James Macpherson published after Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760), Fingal (1762) and Temora (1763) the works of Ossian , allegedly chants of a Celtic bard , actually composed by himself. Ossian triggers a true Celtomania, inspires artists, poets and musicians from Sturm und Drang to Romanticism and generally arouses interest in Nordic sagas, myths and songs.
- Thomas Percy publishes the first edition of a collection of English sagas, ballads, street songs, poems and adventure stories under the title Reliques of Ancient English Poetry . It was not completed until 1867/68 after several revisions by the editors and editors who followed him.
- Oliver Goldsmith : The Traveler .
Drama
- April 4 : The second revised version of Carlo Goldoni's prose comedy Il Ventaglio ( The Fan ) premiered in Venice with great success .
- October 10 : With the publication of the last of eight volumes of The Plays of William Shakespeare , the edition of the work begun by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens in 1756 is completed.
- December 2nd : The comedy Le philosophe sans savoir by Michel-Jean Sedaine premieres at the Théâtre de la rue des Fossés Saint-Germain in Paris.
- The tragedy Adélaïde du Guesclin of Voltaire first appears in print.
Periodicals
- The General German Library is published by Friedrich Nicolai in his own publishing house. The magazine appears from 1765 to 1806, from 1793 under the title Neue Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek (NADB).
- The Churbaierisches Intellektivenblatt / Königlich Baierisches Intellektivenblatt , a semi-official news paper, appears intermittently from 1765 under changing titles in Munich.
- The moral weekly The Man Without Prejudice appears for the first time in Vienna and becomes the central organ of the Enlightenment in the Habsburg Empire . The editor is Joseph von Sonnenfels .
- The quarterly review publication Neue Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek, published by Friedrich Nicolai, is published for the first time.
Translations
- Christoph Martin Wieland translates Shakespeare's The Two Veronese and Much Ado About Nothing .
Scientific works and essays
- The publication of the text volumes of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers by Denis Diderot , indexed by the Catholic Church , is completed by the new editor Louis de Jaucourt without royal printing permission. In addition, the third volume appears.
- Joseph Priestley : Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life , a treatise by the English polymath on education in which he argues that instead of traditional humanistic teaching, students should be taught modern languages, mathematics, modern instead of ancient history and in to teach law and the English constitution.
- Leonhard Euler summarizes the laws of motion of the rigid body in his work Theoria motus corporum solidorum .
Others
- February 19 : Voltaire's Dictionnaire portatif or Dictionnaire philosophique is burned in Paris.
- March 9 : After a campaign Voltaire is Jean Calas rehabilitated. Calas was the victim of a miscarriage of justice . In 1762 he was charged, convicted and executed of the murder of his son.
- In autumn, at the request of his father, Johann Wolfgang Goethe began to study law in Leipzig , later referred to by him as " Little Paris ". He moves into his apartment in a courtyard building of the Große Feuerkugel building on Neumarkt. However, he soon gave preference to Christian Fürchtegott Gellert's poetics lectures , to which the students could present their literary experiments. He also took drawing lessons from the electoral Saxon court painter Adam Friedrich Oeser , with whose daughter Friederike Elisabeth he became a close friend.
- Negotiations by Johann Joachim Winckelmann about a job as a librarian with Friedrich II. Of Prussia fail because of Winckelmann's demands for salary.
- The publishing bookseller Johann Friedrich Hartknoch went into business for himself and built up a respected German-language publishing house in Riga, which published works by Johann Gottfried Herder , Johann Georg Hamann and Immanuel Kant , among others .
Born
- January 11 : Antoine-Alexandre Barbier , French librarian and bibliographer († 1825 )
- March 27 : Franz Xaver von Baader , German philosopher and theologian († 1841 )
- June 1 : Christiane Vulpius , wife and muse of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe († 1816 )
- June 3 : Friederike Brun , Danish writer († 1835 )
- June 15 : Henry Thomas Colebrooke , English orientalist († 1831 )
- July 10 : Johann August Görenz , German educator and librarian († 1836 )
- October 24 : James Mackintosh , Scottish publicist († 1832 )
- October 26 : Václav Thám , Czech poet, writer and actor († 1816 )
- November 27 : Günther von Berg , Baden politician and writer († 1843 )
- December 8 : Friedrich von Schlichtegroll , Mozart biographer, philologist, numismatist and archaeologist († 1822 )
- Jippensha Ikku , Japanese writer († 1831 )
Died
- January 21 : Christian Braunmann Tullin , Norwegian poet (* 1728 )
- March 20 : Paolo Antonio Rolli , Italian writer, librettist (* 1687 )
- April 5 : Edward Young , English poet (* 1683 )
- April 15 : Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow , Russian polymath and writer (* 1711 )
Web links
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- Austrian newspapers from 1765 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library