Literature year 1766
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Events
prose
Christoph Martin Wieland in his time as Biberach office administrator, painting by Oswald May
- The first volume of the two-volume novel Geschichte des Agathon by Christoph Martin Wieland appears. He is considered the first major education and educational novel in German literature and a precursor of the modern psychological novel .
- Oliver Goldsmith's novel of sensitivity, The Vicar of Wakefield , is published for the first time in a two-volume edition. The successful novel influenced English literature as did Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Arthur Schopenhauer .
- 50 years after his death, Pu Songling's work Liaozhai Zhiyi , a collection of around 500 stories, appears in print for the first time.
drama
- Voltaire wrote the tragedy Les Scythes within ten days . The Scythians and their archaic laws represent the Calvinist society in Geneva, as the author confirms in a letter dated December 8th .
Periodicals
- In Arnsberg on October 6th, not least at the instigation of the court councilor Johann Wilhelm Arndts, the printer Eberhard Herken received the electoral privilege not only for a publisher and a printer, but also for the publication of an intelligence paper . The Arnsbergische Intellektivenblatt is the first regular magazine in the Duchy of Westphalia and appears twice a week.
- The Electoral Palatinate Academy of Sciences , founded in 1763 , publishes Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae , the Electoral Palatinate's first scientific journal .
religion
- November 25th : In the encyclical Christianae reipublicae Pope Clement XIII expresses himself . about the dangers of anti-Christian documents and describes their editors as snakes.
Scientific works
Art theory
- In his work Laokoon or Beyond the Boundaries of Mahlerey and Poetry , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing tries to work out the fundamental artistic differences between visual art and poetry. The treatise gained an extraordinary influence on the visual arts and art theory .
Literary studies
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg begins with the publication of his four-volume work Letters on Oddities in Literature (also called Schleswigsche Literaturbriefe ), in which he deals with the literature of Sturm und Drang .
- The Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (Society of the Dutch Literary) is founded in Leiden . The exclusive scientific society, one of the oldest in the Netherlands, is dedicated to the study of Dutch literature and is still based in Leiden today. The MNL library contains more than 100,000 titles, plus old manuscripts, including 300 from the Middle Ages, more recent manuscripts and correspondence.
Natural sciences
- George Stubbs publishes his work The Anatomy of the Horse in London with 18 handwritten copperplate engravings and an extensive commentary. The book, which has been plagiarized again and again since it was first published, has been reissued several times, almost unchanged - with slight adjustments to current linguistic usage, the last time in 2005.
- The chemist Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville publishes an essay on the history of putrefaction ( Essai pour servir a l'histoire de la putréfaction ).
Others
- The student Johann Wolfgang Goethe met the landlord's daughter Anna Katharina Schönkopf in Leipzig . The relationship with "Käthchen" influenced his writing style considerably in the years to come.
Born
- January 1 : Antoine-Vincent Arnault , French writer († 1834 )
- February 19 : William Dunlap , American painter and writer († 1839 )
- April 22 : Anne Louise Germaine de Staël , French writer († 1817 )
- April 23 : Carsten Tank , Norwegian businessman and politician († 1832 )
- May 11 : Isaak D'Israeli , English writer and literary historian († 1848 )
- May 23 : Joseph von Zerboni di Sposetti , Prussian civil servant, publicist, poet and Freemason († 1831 )
- July 6 : Alexander Wilson , Scottish ornithologist and poet († 1813 )
- July 9 : Johanna Schopenhauer , German writer († 1839 )
- August 1 : Hanzo Njepila , Sorbian folk writer († 1856 )
- August 18 : Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly , Austrian publisher, cartographer and writer († 1820 )
- November 22nd : Charlotte von Lengefeld , wife of Friedrich Schiller († 1826 )
Died
Date of death secured
- January 9 : Thomas Birch English historian and writer (* 1705 )
- March 6 : Gottfried Tollmann , German Protestant pastor and hymn poet (* 1680 )
- March 13 : Christian Gottlob KÄNDER , Rector of the city school in Sangerhausen and academic journalist (* 1703 )
- March 21 : Hierotheus Confluentinus , Catholic priest from the Principality of Trier, Capuchin, religious writer and chronicler (* 1682 )
- May 12 : Michael Christoph Brandenburg , German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, poet and librettist (* 1694 )
- July 9 : Jonathan Mayhew , British-North American Unitarian theologian and political writer (born 1720 )
- October 2 : Jacques Hardion , French historian, translator and royal librarian (* 1686 )
- October 6 : Jean Desgrouais , French Romance philologist, linguist and lexicographer (* 1703 )
- October 8 : Carl Friedrich Richter , Berlin builder and architect (* 1701 )
- October 31 : Franz von Som , Hamburg lawyer and archivist (* 1688 )
- November 2 : Matthäus Vogel , German Jesuit priest, people's missionary and religious writer (* 1695 )
- November 3 : Thomas Abbt , German writer and philosopher (* 1738 )
- December 12th : Johann Christoph Gottsched , German writer, dramaturge, linguist and literary theorist (* 1700 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Johann Philipp Praetorius , German librettist (* 1696 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Books 1766 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
- Austrian newspapers from 1766 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library