Literature year 1772

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Literature year 1772
Diderot 1773
Denis Diderot, 1773
Reasons to mourn my old housecoat, 1772

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The Göttingen Hainbund was founded on September 12, 1772 by Johann Heinrich Voss , Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty , Johann Martin Miller , Gottlieb Dieterich von Miller , Johann Friedrich Hahn and Johann Thomas Ludwig Wehrs on the Kerstlingeröder field near the university town of Göttingen. The founding members got to know each other partly through their contributions to the literary magazine “ Göttinger Musenalmanach ”, which was founded in 1770 by Heinrich Christian Boie , partly through their joint studies. From 1772 at the latest, the Göttingen Muses Almanac was the mouthpiece of the Hainbund.

At the end of the year Diderot decides to accept an invitation from Catherine II and sets out on a trip to Russia the following year.

Jacques Cazotte
Salomon Gessner
Christoph Martin Wieland
David Garrick

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Periodicals

  • Der Jude was a weekly magazine published from 1772 by Gottfried Selig (1722–1795), editor at the University of Leipzig. The magazine ceased to appear after four years and a total of nine volumes.
  • The Morning Post was an ultra-conservative London daily and the exclusive organ of the British court and the aristocratic world. It appeared from 1772 to 1937 when it was adopted by the Daily Telegraph .
  • Historical journal. By members of the Royal Historical Institute in Göttingen. Edited by Johann Christoph Gatterer 1772–1781

poetry

  • Salomon Gessner had his Idylls published in 1756, which were extremely popular in Germany and had developed into a bestseller, followed by a second volume in 1772.
  • Mahomets Gesang , a poem by Goethe , written in 1772/73.

prose

  • Diderot's essay Reasons to mourn my old housecoat or: A warning to all those who have more taste than money , which he wrote in 1768 and which was circulated in Grimms Correspondance littéraire in the following year , is published as a brochure and without Diderot's consent by the writer and Karlsruhe prince educator Friedrich Dominicus Ring (1726–1799).
  • From February 1772 Diderot's Pensées détachées sur la peinture, la sculpture, l'architecture et la poésie , in which he formulates aphorism-like basic principles about the visual arts, appear in Grimm's Correspondance .
  • Jacques Cazotte , a French writer who was close to the Martinists and their theosophical-mystical ideas, publishes his fantastic novel Le Diable Amoureux : The officer and boastful Alvare de Maravillas conjures up the devil who appears to him in the form of a beautiful woman and who promptly turns into Alvares in love. The novel is considered a forerunner of modern fantasy literature .

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Scientific works

  • William Hamilton , British Ambassador to Naples from 1764 to 1800 , publishes his Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcano's with Cadell in London : in a series of letters addressed to the Royal Society from the Honorable Sir William Hamilton . The German translation came just a year later in the Berlin publishing house Haude und Spener under the title Observations on Vesuvius, Mount Aetna and other volcanoes. In a series of letters to the Royal Society of Science. In addition to new, explanatory comments from the author .

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