Literature year 1780
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Overview of the literary
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Events
- On January 7, 1780, the "Weimar Comedy House" opens on the Theaterplatz in Weimar opposite the Wilttumpalais. The highlight of the amateur theater was the performance of the prose version of Goethe's Iphigenie , directed by Goethe and with Corona Schröter in the title role.
- The Grand Théâtre opens in Bordeaux on April 7th, and contemporaries consider it the largest and most beautiful theater in France. Jean Racine's drama Athalie will be played at the festive event .
- The new building of a library in Berlin initiated by Friedrich II. In 1775 based on plans by Michael Philipp Boumann and Georg Christian Unger has been completed. With this library, Friedrich made literature, which was previously reserved for the nobility, ministers, scientists and higher civil servants, accessible to the bourgeoisie. At the beginning of the 19th century, the facility developed into the largest and most efficient library in the German-speaking area in terms of inventory and use.
- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is founded
New releases
Periodicals
- On January 1st, the Magyar hímondó (Hungarian Courier), the first Hungarian daily newspaper , appears in Bratislava .
- Salomon Gessner publishes the first issue of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on January 12th in Zurich .
- The Irishman James August Hicky publishes “Hicky's Bengal Gazette” in Calcutta on January 29, the first English weekly newspaper in India. The newspaper stopped appearing after just two years.
poetry
- September 6th : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe writes in pencil on the wooden wall of a hunting lodge on the Kickelhahn near Ilmenau in Thuringia Wanderer's night song - Ein Gleiches .
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock : Your death
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Limits of Humanity
- The first edition Oberon of Christoph Martin Wieland's poem in fourteen songs was printed by Carl Ludolf Hofmann in Weimar in 1780 without naming the author.
- Cramer's hymn book with 915 Christian songs, ed. by Johann Andres Cramer was in use in Schleswig-Holstein until 1833 .
Scientific works
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : The education of the human race .
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac : La Logique ou l'art de penser , commandé du gouvernement de Pologne pour les écoles palatines.
- Joseph Priestley Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever .
Born
- January 4th : Théophile Marion Dumersan , French playwright, poet, and librettist († 1849 )
- February 11 : Karoline von Günderrode , German writer († 1806 )
- February 24 : Karl Schall , German comedy poet and translator († 1833 )
- February 26 : August Thieme , German poet († 1860 )
- March 17 : Thomas Chalmers , Scottish writer and founder of the Free Church of Scotland († 1847 )
- March 26 : Julius Eduard Hitzig , German writer and judge of the Chamber of Justice († 1849 )
- April 29 : Charles Nodier , French writer († 1844 )
- May 11 : Karl Benedikt Hase , German classical philologist and librarian († 1864 )
- August 19 : Pierre-Jean de Béranger , French poet († 1857 )
- September 3 : Georg Heinrich Lünemann , German classical philologist and lexicographer († 1830 )
- September 8 : Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont , French author of children's books
- September 24 : Hendrik Tollens , Dutch writer of Flemish origin († 1856 )
- October 28 : Ernst Anschütz , German theologian, educator and poet († 1861 )
Died
- January 24th : Hiraga Gennai , Japanese scholar, inventor and writer (* 1728 )
- February 18 : Kristijonas Donelaitis , Lithuanian writer (* 1714 )
- April 23 : Maria Antonia von Bayern , Bavarian art patron and composer, painter and poet (* 1724 )
- April 29 : Claude Joseph Dorat , "Le Chevalier Dorat", French poet and novelist (* 1734 )
- June 2 : Józef Baka , Polish Jesuit priest, missionary, preacher and poet (* 1707 )
- August 23 : Marie de Vichy Chamrond , French solonière and letter writer (* 1697 )
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