Literature year 1769

Literature year 1769
The opening of the Theater Royal in Edinburgh is recorded in verse by James Boswell .

Events

January 21 : The first of a series of letters from Junius appears in London in the Public Advertiser magazine . The king, minister, parliament, courts of justice and civil servants, as well as the machinations of the Whigs and Tories and their struggles among themselves, are denounced with ruthless satire , but at the same time with spirit, thorough knowledge and eloquence. The identity of the author “Junius” remains undiscovered.

Johann Gottfried Herder wrote the journal of my journey in 1769 about the author's journey from Riga via Copenhagen and Helsingør to Nantes , which was not published until 1846 .

December 9 : The Theater Royal in Edinburgh opens. The event is recorded in verse by James Boswell .

January 5 : The piece Lucile of Jean François Marmontel also has the song be Où peut être mieux on qu'au de sa famille its premiere , which is the unofficial anthem of France during the Restoration period.
June 22nd : The drama Ugolino by Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg has its world premiere in Berlin.

A copy of the Pressburger Zeitung from 1769

The Viennese moral weekly The Man Without Prejudice by Joseph von Sonnenfels appears again after a two-year break.
The moral weekly Der Freund der Virtue by Karl Gottlieb von Windisch ceases to appear as a supplement to the Pressburger Zeitung after two years.

Pope Clement XIV.

September 12 : With his first encyclical Decet quam maxime , the new Pope Clement XIV , elected in May, addresses the bishops of the Kingdom of Sardinia. In it he denounced the increasing abuse of taxes and duties paid to the bishops.
December 12th : Pope Clement XIV publishes the encyclical Cum summi apostolatus , with which he takes up the tradition of the Holy Year . On the same date he also published the closely related encyclical Inscrutabili divinae sapientiae , with which he referred to the need for a jubilee year .

Susette Gontard

February 9 : Susette Gontard , Hamburg merchant's daughter and banker's wife, lover of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin († 1802 )
February 13 : Ivan Krylov , Russian fabulous poet († 1844 )
March 28 : Adolph Wilhelm Schack von Staffeldt , Danish romantic poet († 1826 )

April 11 : František Vladislav Hek , Czech patriot, poet and publicist († 1847 )
April 16 : Bahne Asmussen , Frisian pastor, poet and teacher († 1844 )
June 24th : August Ferdinand Bernhardi , German linguist and writer († 1820 )

November 1 : Garlieb Helwig Merkel , German-Baltic publicist and writer († 1850 )
November 19 : Elise Bürger , Württemberg poet, third wife of Gottfried August Bürger († 1833 )