Literature year 1772
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Denis Diderot, 1773 |
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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.
New releases
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 .
- The Paderborn Intelligence Gazette, the official bulletin of the Principality of Paderborn , was first published in 1772 at the instigation of Wilhelm Anton von der Asseburg . The paper ceased to appear in 1849.
- 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 .
- The golden mirror or the kings of Scheschian , a true story , a novel by Christoph Martin Wieland , printed by Weidmann in Leipzig.
drama
- On March 13, 1772, Lessing's Emilia Galotti was premiered by Karl Theophil Döbbelin at the Ducal Opera House in Braunschweig on the occasion of the birthday of Duchess Philippine Charlotte .
- Samuel Foote's comedy The Nabob premieres on June 29, 1772 at the Haymarket Theater .
- The comedy The Fashionable Lover Richard Cumberland premiered in January 1772 at the Drury Lane Theater in London.
- The comedy The Irish Widow of David Garrick will be premiered on 23 October 1772 at the Drury Lane Theater
- On December 16, at the Teatro Regio Ducal in Milan, Mozart's opera Lucio Silla, based on a libretto by Giovanni di Gamerra, will be premiered.
- Le Dépositaire , comedy of verse in 5 acts by Voltaire , printed by François Grasset in Lausanne, is performed in Lyon and is published in book form.
Scientific works
- With his essays on the origin of language, Herder wins the competition announced by the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1769 to answer the question "Are people, left to their natural abilities, capable of inventing language and if so, by what means did they get there ? "
- The last volume of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers appeared in Paris in 1772. The first volume of the work edited by Diderot together with d'Alembert came out in 1751. A four-volume supplement and a table volume followed from 1776 to 1777, edited by the publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke and Jean-Baptiste-René Robinet .
- 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 .
- The description of Arabia. From his own observations and from news collected in the country itself, written by Carsten Niebuhr , dedicated to the Danish king, in which he reports on his expedition to the countries of the Arabian and Near Eastern regions between 1761 and 1767, is printed in Copenhagen.
Translations
- The German translation of the Koran " The Turkish Bible, or the Koran's very first German translation from the Arabic original" by M. David Friederich Megerlin was published in 1772 by Gottlieb Garbe in Frankfurt am Main. In the same year the edition was critically discussed in the " Frankfurter Gelehre Werbung ", which from 1772 onwards was edited by Goethe among others .
Born
- February 2 : Frans Michael Franzén , Swedish poet and Protestant bishop († 1847 )
- March 10 : Friedrich Schlegel , German writer and philosopher, representative of Jena early romanticism and founder of the modern humanities († 1829 )
- April 21 : Friedrich Christoph Perthes , German bookseller and publisher († 1843 )
- May 2 : Novalis , German early Romantic poet († 1801 )
- September 14 : Josef Alois Gleich , Austrian civil servant and theater poet († 1841 )
- November 2 : Johann Ladislaus Pyrker , Austrian poet and Roman Catholic bishop († 1847 )