Literature year 1770
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
- September: In Denmark , cabinet secretary Johann Friedrich Struensee introduces unrestricted freedom of the press .
Scientific works
- Beginning of the year: The French enlightener and encyclopaedist Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach published the philosophical work Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral ( System of Nature or of the Laws of the.) With Marc-Michel Rey in the Netherlands Physical and Moral World ). The title page names Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud , who died ten years ago , a member of the Académie française, and the place of publication is London .
- Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice begins publishing the Encyclopédie d'Yverdon in French in Yverdon-les-Bains , Switzerland . It is an important follow-up to the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert . In contrast to other subsequent works of the Paris Encyclopedia , the Encyclopédie d'Yverdon is not a reprint or pirated edition, but a real new version. Felice had the text corpus edited by 34 authors, 27 of whom are known by name. They improve incorrect articles, complete incomplete articles and add numerous new articles.
- Charles-Joseph Panckoucke acquires the rights to the Encyclopédie .
Periodicals
- In the run-up to the Göttingen Hainbund, Johann Christian Dieterich publishes the first Göttingen muse almanac. Have established him Heinrich Christian Boie and Friedrich Wilhelm gods .
- Karl Gottlieb von Windisch founds the moral weekly newspaper Der Vernstandsige Zeitvertreiber in Pressburg . This supplement to the Pressburger Zeitung follows on from its predecessor, The Friend of Virtue , which was discontinued the previous year .
- The Wandsbeck Mercurius , published since 1745 , is banned by the Hamburg Senate. Carl Heinrich von Schimmelmann then founded the from 1771 appearing Wandsbecker Bothen . The only editor is Matthias Claudius .
Others
- April Johann Wolfgang Goethe moves from Frankfurt to Strasbourg in France and continues his studies at the university there . At the German-speaking university, he devotes himself more purposefully to his legal studies than before in Leipzig.
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 25 : Adam Simons , Dutch Reformed theologian, poet, rhetorician and historian († 1834 )
- February 27 : Don Juan Bautista Arriaza y Superviela , Spanish statesman and poet († 1837 )
Hölderlin's birthplace on a pencil drawing by Julius Nebel around 1800
- March 20 : Friedrich Hölderlin , German poet († 1843 )
- March 27 : Sophie Mereau , German writer († 1806 )
- April 5 : Heinrich Behrmann , German-Danish pedagogue, non-fiction author and private scholar († 1836 )
- April 7 : William Wordsworth , British poet († 1850 )
- April 9 : Johann Georg Kerner , doctor from Württemberg and chronicler of the French Revolution († 1812 )
- April 10 : Joseph von Laßberg , German Germanist and writer († 1855 )
- April 11 : Karl Gustav Friedrich Schwalbe , German teacher and writer (†?)
- April 15 : Jana Wynandina Gertrut d'Aubigny von Engelbrunner , German writer, singer and music teacher († 1847 )
- June 22nd : Wilhelm Traugott Krug , German philosopher († 1842 )
- August 27 : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , German philosopher († 1831 )
- September 3 : Johann Heinrich Karl Hengstenberg , Prussian hymn poet († 1834 )
- September 6 : Theodor Heinsius , German linguist and lexicographer († 1849 )
- October 20 : Antoine Jay , French lawyer and writer († 1854 )
- December 27 : Carl Weisflog , German writer († 1828 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Vasile Aaron , Romanian poet († 1822 )
- Theodor Franz Thiriart , Cologne printer and publisher († 1827 )
Died
- June 23 : Mark Akenside , English doctor and poet (* 1721 )
- August 25 : Thomas Chatterton , British poet (* 1752 )
- November 24th : Charles-Jean-François Hénault , French writer and historian (* 1685 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Books 1770 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
- Austrian newspapers from 1770 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library