Literature year 1776
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Events
As Privy Legation Councilor, Goethe receives a seat and vote in Carl August's “Secret Cocilium”. From 1776 to 1832 he was a civil servant at the Weimar court and in the state administration of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach.
Johann Gottfried Herder comes to Weimar with his family and becomes general superintendent there .
Based on the Hamburg model, the Burgtheater in Vienna is called "Teutsches Nationaltheater" by decree of Emperor Joseph II .
Libraries
The new building of the library of the Admont Abbey under the direction of the architect Josef Hueber has been completed.
The Royal Academy of Sciences ( Regia Scientiarum Academia ) in Zagreb took over the library of the Neoacademia Zagrabiensis monastery college established by the Jesuits in 1607, which was then incorporated into the Zagreb University Library in 1874 .
The “Physical Society” in Bremen is founded and, in addition to a collection of natural objects and devices, creates a specialist library that later becomes part of the library of the Bremen Überseemuseum .
New releases
Periodicals
Novels, short stories
- Johann Martin Miller : Siegwart. A history of the monastery appears at Weygand in Leipzig.
- Christoph Martin Wieland publishes his verse story Das Wintermärchen in the magazine Der Teutsche Merkur, which he publishes .
- The satirical novel Belphegor is published by Johann Karl Wezel .
drama
- February 8 : The first version of Goethe's tragedy Stella is printed by August Mylius in Berlin in 1776 and premiered on February 8 at the National Theater in Hamburg . The final scene with the prospect of a menage à quatre of the protagonists triggers storms of moral indignation and leads to a partial ban on the play. Goethe brought the new version with a different ending to the stage in Weimar in 1816 .
- February 23 : Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's drama Die Zwillinge is premiered in Hamburg and banned a year later in Vienna after only one performance by Josef II.
- April 1 : Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's play Sturm und Drang is premiered in Weimar.
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner : The child murderess , tragedy in six acts, is published anonymously and performed in Berlin in 1777 a year later.
Poetry
- Goethe wrote the first version of Wanderer's Night Song and added it to a letter to Charlotte von Stein .
- The poem An Psyche is published by Christoph Martin Wieland .
Scientific works, essays
- February 17 : Volume 1 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by the historian Edward Gibbon is published in London . His six-volume work on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire shaped ideas about life in Roman times for many years.
- March 9 : Adam Smith's main work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, appears in London.
- Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach : Le Gouvernement fondé sur la morale .
Translations
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner translates with the assistance of Goethe Louis-Sébastien Merciers Du théatre ou nouvel essai sur l'art dramatique (New attempt on the art of acting). The book triggers a discussion on aesthetic issues in wide literary circles.
Born
- January 24th : Wilhelmine Halberstadt , German educator and writer († 1841 )
- January 24th : ETA Hoffmann , German romantic († 1822 )
- January 25 : Joseph Görres , German high school and university teacher and publicist († 1848 )
- February 23 : John Walter , British publisher, owner and editor of "The Times" († 1847 )
- April 13 : Wilhelm von Schütz , German poet († 1847 )
- May 4 : Johann Friedrich Herbart , German philosopher, psychologist and educator († 1841 )
- May 7 : Dániel Berzsenyi , Hungarian poet († 1836 )
- July 1 : Sophie Gay , French writer († 1852 )
- August 18 : Sigismund August Wolfgang von Herder , German geologist and mineralogist († 1838 )
- Exact date of birth unknown
- Shikitei Samba , Japanese writer († 1822 )
Died
- August 25 : David Hume , Scottish philosopher and historian (* 1711 )
- September 1 : Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty , German poet (* 1748 )
- December 13 : Karl Franz Henisch , German actor and librettist (* 1745 )
- December 14 : Johann Jakob Breitinger , Swiss philologist and author (* 1701 )
- Exact date of death unknown
- Lemuel Abbott , English cleric and poet (* around 1730 )