Literature year 1767

Literature year 1767
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing completes the comedy Minna von Barnhelm , which premiered with great success.

Events

The second and last volume of the 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 .

January 29th : The drama Eugénie by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais has its world premiere at the Comédie-Française in Paris. The piece is based on the story of Count Belflor and Leonor de Cespedes from Le diable boiteux (The Limping Devil) by Alain-René Lesage , an adaptation of the novel El diablo cojuelo by Luis Vélez de Guevara , published in 1707 .
February 14 : Voltaire's preferred setting of his libretto Pandore is premiered at the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs. Another performance follows at Voltaire's private theater in Ferney .
September 26th : Voltaire's tragic comedy Charlot , which was not originally written for the stage, is premiered in the author's private theater under his direction.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing will work as a dramaturge and consultant at the Hamburg National Theater for three years . During his work there he made the acquaintance of Friedrich Ludwig Schröder , Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Johann Melchior Goeze , Johann Friedrich Löwen and the Reimarus and König families. He also met his future wife Eva König . At the National Theater, of which Abel Seyler is the main supporter , Lessing's comedy Minna von Barnhelm will be premiered on September 30th . The premiere, which was preceded by a short-term performance ban and a dispute with the Berlin censorship authority, was an extraordinary success, and the piece was then played on all major stages in German-speaking countries.

July 3rd : The first daily newspaper in Norway is published in Trondheim , today's address avail .

The Benedictine monk Placidus Fixlmillner begins in the Upper Austrian monastery Kremsmünster with regular weather records , which he records in a weather chronicle.

The Norwegian zoologist Peter Ascanius publishes the first of five illustrated volumes of his major work Icones rerum naturalium .

Joseph Priestley publishes The History and Present State of Electricity .

Denis Diderot and Louis de Jaucourt publish the fourth volume of the Encyclopédie .

January 5 : Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson , French history and portrait painter, illustrator of classic literary works and poet († 1824 )
January 22 : Johann Friedrich Pierer , German physician and lexicographer († 1832 )

April 1 : Renatus Gotthelf Löbel , Saxon lawyer, lexicographer and private scholar († 1799 )
April 6 : Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval , French architect, writer and theater director († 1842 )
April 15 : Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wachler , German teacher, literary historian, librarian and university professor († 1838 )
April 16 : Karl Julius Weber , German writer and satirist († 1832 )

July 4 : Kyokutei Bakin , Japanese writer († 1848 )
September 5 : August Wilhelm Schlegel , German literary historian and critic, translator, ancient philologist and Indologist († 1845 )

October 4 : Christian Adolf von Seckendorff , German poet and cameralistic writer († 1833 )
October 25 : Benjamin Constant , French-Swiss writer († 1830 )

November 29 : Daniel Runge , Hamburg merchant and shipowner as well as poet and editor († 1856 )
December 21 : Christian Jakob Salice-Contessa , Silesian local politician and romantic writer († 1825 )

January 2 : Joachim Johann Daniel Zimmermann , German theologian and church poet (* 1710 )
January 24th : Jean-Baptiste-François-Joseph de Sade , French nobleman, diplomat, officer, libertine and man of letters (* 1702 )

February 1 : Christian Crusius , German rhetorician and historian (* 1715 )
February 1 : Gottfried Kleiner , German Protestant clergyman and hymn poet (* 1691 )
February 15 : Johann Christian Edelmann , German Pietist, early enlightenment and writer (* 1698 )

April 3 : Elisabeth Sophie Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön as well as Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, collector and author of religious writings (* 1683 )
April 15 : Johann David Gschwend , German educator, historian and author (* 1691 )
May 10 : Christian Ulrich Grupen , German lawyer, legal historian and author (* 1692 )

August 6 : Georg Ludwig von Bar , German canon, writer and translator (* 1701 )
August 6 : Antonio Zaniboni , Italian poet, librettist and orator (* around 1690 )
23 August : Jean Deschamps , Franco-German philosopher, Prussian court preacher, theologian and writer (* 1707 )

October 5th : Francis Wise , English archivist (* 1695 )
November 21 : Jean-Henri Maubert de Gouvest , French escaped monk, adventurer, artillery officer, secretary, writer, publicist, secret agent and director of a comedian troupe visiting Germany (* 1721 )

December 22nd : John Newbery , English publisher and bookseller, pioneer of children's and youth literature (* 1713 )

End of the year (buried January 1, 1768): Jan Lauwryn Krafft , Brussels engraver, eraser, shape cutter, writer, publisher and singer (* 1694 )

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