Literature year 1768

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Literature year 1768
Johann Wolfgang Goethe breaks off his studies in Leipzig.

Events

prose

February 27th : The Irish-English author Laurence Sterne publishes the novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ( Yorick's sensitive journey through France and Italy ). The novel remains unfinished as the author dies a few days after the first chapters are published before he can finish his novel.

Title page of the first edition

James Boswell publishes An Account of Corsica , which he visited on his Grand Tour .

Poetry

Christoph Martin Wieland publishes the philosophical verse story Musarion .

drama

After Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Käthchen Schönkopf separated by mutual agreement in the spring after a two-year relationship, Goethe wrote the shepherd's play Die Laune des Verliebten . In July, Goethe fell seriously ill, whereupon he broke off his studies in Leipzig and returned to his parents' house in Frankfurt in August, where he was intensely concerned with religion and mysticism under the influence of Moravian canon Susanne von Klettenberg , a friend of his mother's. In November he begins work on his first comedy The Accomplices .
The tragedy Ugolino , main work by Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg , is published anonymously. The world premiere takes place a year later.

Others

The German archaeologist and art writer Johann Joachim Winckelmann , who lives in Rome, embarks on a journey together with the sculptor Bartolomeo Cavaceppi that will lead him to old and new friends in his homeland. An illness and the troubles of the trip lead to a melancholy attack, which already lets him break off the trip in Regensburg. On the way back he visits Vienna and is received by Empress Maria Theresia . He received four gold and silver medals from her for his scientific merits. After another fever, he continues his return journey. In Trieste he stops at the Hotel Locanda Grande , where he meets the convicted chef Francesco Arcangeli . On the morning of June 8th, Arcangeli tries to strangle Winckelmann with a rope and steal the coins. When this fails, he stabs him with a knife. Winckelmann bleeds to death six hours after the attack, but can still provide extensive information on what happened. Arcangeli is sentenced to death on wheels after being proven to have murdered him.

December 6th : William Smellie publishes the first batch of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica in Edinburgh . From now on, weekly deliveries of this Scottish reconnaissance product will appear .

The John Murray publishing bookstore is founded in London .
Denis Diderot and Louis de Jaucourt publish the fifth volume of the Encyclopédie .

Born

January 25 : Justus Erich Walbaum , German typographer, type founder and stamp cutter († 1839 )
February 12 : Joseph von Hazzi , Bavarian tax officer and writer on forestry, agriculture and statistics († 1845 )
February 14 : Paul Usteri , Swiss publicist and politician († 1831 )

March 4 : Johann Friedrich Kind , German writer († 1843 )
March 15 : Maria Anna Czartoryska , Polish writer († 1854 )
March 27 : Joseph Schreyvogel , Austrian writer († 1832 )

May 25 : Kagawa Kageki , Japanese Tanka poet († 1843 )
June 12 : Johann Gottfried Pahl , Wuerttemberg author, clergyman and politician († 1839 )

July 18 : Jean-Robert Argand , Swiss bookseller and amateur mathematician († 1822 )
August 15 : Christoph von Schmid , German poet and author of young books († 1854 )
August 24 : Julius von Voss , German writer († 1832 )

September 4 : François-René de Chateaubriand , French writer and diplomat († 1848 )
October 28 : Johannes Daniel Falk , Prussian theologian and writer († 1826 )
October 28 : Wilhelmine von Gersdorff , German nobleman and writer († 1847 )

November 18 : Zacharias Werner , German playwright († 1823 )
November 21 : Friedrich Schleiermacher , German Protestant theologian, classical philologist, philosopher, publicist, state theorist, church politician and educator († 1834 )
November 24th : Georg Friedrich Rebmann , German publicist († 1824 )

Christlieb Georg Heinrich Arresto , German actor and poet († 1817 )

Died

March 18 : Laurence Sterne , British writer (* 1713 )
April 9 : Sarah Fielding , English writer and translator (* 1710 )

The death of Eggert Ólafsson , engraving by Jonas Haas , published in 1769 in Ólafur Ólafsson's Drauma diktur um søknud og sorglegan missir þess Havitra, Gøfuga og Goda Manns Herra Eggerts Olafssonar, Vice-Løgmanns sunnan og austan ddar Islande a s Frur Ingibjargar Gudmund's Dottur

30 May : Eggert Ólafsson , Icelandic poet, naturalist, philologist, archaeologist, economist and historian (* 1726 )

Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( Anton von Maron 1768)

June 8 : Johann Joachim Winckelmann , German archaeologist and art writer (* 1717 )

July 4th : Willem van Haren , Dutch poet and statesman (* 1710 )
August 20 : Joseph Spence , English historian, garden architect and man of letters (* 1699 )
November 10th : Johann Jacob Leu , Swiss encyclopedia, mayor of Zurich and banker (* 1689 )

Web links

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Austrian newspapers from 1768 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library