Literature year 1791
Literature year 1791 | 1795
Overview of the literary
years Further events
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Events
- January 6th : The Théâtre de Monsieur opens on Rue Feydeau in Paris.
- May 7th : The Weimar Court Theater is opened under the direction of Johann Wolfgang Goethe .
- July 11th : Voltaire's body is ceremoniously transferred to the Pantheon.
- Beaumarchais completes the drama La mère coupable (premiere 1792).
- The Grein City Theater in Austria is founded. It is the oldest civic theater north of the Alps, preserved in its original state.
New releases
Periodicals
- December 4th : The Observer is a weekly and the first British Sunday newspaper
- Moskovskii zhurnal is founded by the writer and historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamsin .
- Jeversches Wochenblatt , founded by Johann Hinrich Borgeest (1783–1803)
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- James Boswell publishes The Life of Samuel Johnson in London .
- A year after he was released from the Bastille, de Sade publishes the 2nd version of Justine or The Adversity of Virtue , his first ever printed book. The first version of Les Infortunes de la Vertu from 1781 was not printed during de Sade's lifetime.
- Susanna Rowson : Charlotte, a Tale of Truth ; Mentoria, or the Young Ladies' Friend
- Christoph Martin Wieland : Secret story of the philosopher Peregrinus Proteus , novel, is published in Leipzig by Verlag Göschen .
- 15-year-old Jane Austen wrote the satirical work The History of England and dated it "Saturday 26 November 1791".
- Johann Kaspar Steube publishes his life story under the title Wanderings und Schicksale von Johann Caspar S.
drama
- September 17th : Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Der Groß-Cophta , a comedy in 5 acts is premiered at the opening of the Ducal Theater in Weimar
Poetry
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Bröde (On the purest spring morning). Goethe used the text in Theatralische Abenteuer (1791 Weimar), the music for it comes from Domenico Cimarosa : " L'impresario in angustie ".
- Friedrich Hölderlin publishes his first poems: Hymne to the Muse ; Hymn to freedom ; Hymn to the goddess of harmony ; Melody to Lida ; My recovery ; Hymn to beauty ; Hymn to humanity
Translations
- James Newton publishes the Vitruvian translation from Latin into English by his brother William Newton (1735–1790). The book will be printed in Taylor's London office.
Scientific works and essays
- The fourth part of Herder's main work on the philosophy of history, Ideas on a Philosophy of the History of Humanity
- Jakob Mauvillon : Man and woman portrayed according to their mutual relationships, counterpart to the writing about women
- Alexander Fraser Tytler : Essay on Principle of Translation , the first printed book on the theory of translation
- Constantin François Volney : Les Ruines Ou Méditations Sur Les Révolutions Des Empires is published in Geneva
Born
- January 15 : Franz Grillparzer , Austrian playwright († 1872 )
- February 20 : Émile Deschamps , French playwright and librettist, († 1871 )
- October 11 : Carl Bertelsmann , German printer and publisher († 1850 )
Died
- January 23 : Karl Heinrich von Heinecken , German librarian, art writer (* 1701 )
- January 26 : Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis , French lawyer, author of legal articles in the Encyclopédie
- April 2 : Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau , French politician, writer and publicist (* 1749 )
- 22nd August : Johann David Michaelis , German theologian, philologist and orientalist, (* 1717 )
- September 6th : Georg Friedrich Brandes , owner of the most important German private library of the Enlightenment (* 1709 )
- September 17th : Tomás de Iriarte , Spanish poet (* 1750 )
- September 25 : William Bradford , American printer and publisher (* 1719 )
- December 21 : Arnaud Berquin , French children's author
