Literature year 1776

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Literature year 1776

Events

Goethe
Edward Gibbon
Baron Holbach
Wilhelmine Halberstadt
Joseph Gorres
David Hume

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

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 .

Poetry

Scientific works, essays

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.

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Died

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