Literature year 1771
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Overview of the literature years
Further events
Events
prose
- Her story of Fräuleins von Sternheim made Sophie von La Roche the first German-speaking writer to gain European significance. The morally sensitive epistolary novel was originally published anonymously by the editor Christoph Martin Wieland .
Poetry
- May: Johann Wolfgang Goethe probably wrote the Mailied .
drama
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe puts down a first manuscript by Götz von Berlichingen , the so-called "Urgötz".
Periodicals
Matthias Claudius moves from Hamburg to Wandsbeck and becomes editor of the daily newspaper Der Wandsbecker Bothe , initiated by Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann last year , which appears four times a week.
science
The first 100 numbers of the Encyclopædia Britannica , edited weekly by William Smellie since 1768, are summarized in three volumes. Together they comprise 2391 pages with 160 copperplate engravings .
religion
- The Slovenian Protestant pastor István Küzmics wrote the Nouvi Zákon , the first translation of the New Testament into Prekmurian .
Born
- February 25 : Johan Henrik Schrøter , Faroese pastor and man of letters († 1851 )
- March 20 : Heinrich Clauren , German writer († 1854 )
- March 22 : Heinrich Zschokke , German-Swiss writer, educator and politician († 1848 )
- May 19 : Rahel Varnhagen von Ense , Prussian writer († 1833 )
- August 15 : Walter Scott , Scottish writer († 1832 )
- August 29 : Christian August Fischer , German writer († 1829 )
- September 17 : August Apel , German lawyer and writer († 1816 )
- October 24 : Johannes Weitzel , German writer, publisher and librarian († 1837 )
- November 1 : Stephan Schütze , German writer, belonged to the Goethe Circle († 1839 )
- November 28 : Christian Friedrich Bernhard Augustin , German theologian, writer and historian († 1856 )
- December 26 : Heinrich Joseph von Collin , Austrian writer († 1811 )
- December 29 : Nikolaus Daniel Hinsche , German mayor and writer († 1848 )
- Alojzy Feliński , Polish writer († 1820 )
Died
- January 12 : Jean-Baptiste de Boyer , French writer and philosopher (* 1703 )
- January 19 : John Burton , English doctor and antiquarian (* 1710 )
- March 22nd : Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener , German writer and publicist of the Enlightenment (* 1714 )
- July 30th : Thomas Gray , English poet, scholar and letter-writer (* 1716 )
- August 19 : Daniel Schiebeler , German writer (* 1741 )
- September 17th : Tobias Smollett , British writer (* 1721 )
- November 20 : Thomas Jefferys , English geographer, cartographer, engraver, bookseller, publisher and printer (* around 1719 )
- December 12 : Theodor Arnold , German translator, lexicographer, grammarian and teacher (* 1683 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Books 1771 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
- Austrian newspapers from 1771 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library