Literature year 1795

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Literature year 1795
Adolph Müller: Schiller, Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Jena, around 1797
With the collaboration between Goethe and Schiller, the literary epoch of the Weimar Classics began .

Events

Goethe and Schiller in conversation. Caricature by Johann Christian Reinhart

From 1795 Goethe and Schiller worked closely together. This creative period of 10 years was later - in the narrower sense - also referred to as " Weimar Classic ".

M me de Staël , who in 1792 had withdrawn to her country estate in Coppet on Lake Geneva for political reasons , is returning to Paris to reopen her salon for a short time . Guests of your salon are u. a. the physician and philosopher Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis , the playwright Marie-Joseph Chénier , the poet Benjamin Constant , the historian Pierre-Claude Daunou , the politician and philosopher Dominique Joseph Garat and the politician and publicist Pierre-Louis Roederer . Just two years later, she was forced to return to Coppet - she and her salon are suspected of being in the Directoire .

New releases

Periodicals

  • Friedrich von Gentz founds the New German Monthly . In addition to political and financial issues, the magazine's topics include classical literature and education and, above all, contemporary history: the course of the French Revolution, the constitution of the Directoire in France and fundamental problems of democracy and participation. The magazine ceases to appear after only three volumes.

prose

Poetry

  • Proximity of the Beloved , a poem by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, is printed in Schiller's Almanac of the Muses for the year 1796.
  • The “Weimar Song Book”, a collection of 595 songs edited by Johann Gottfried Herder, is published in the Hoffmannische Hofbuchhandlung in Weimar.
  • Herder's "Terpsichore", a collection of poems and short prose pieces, was published in 3 volumes by Bohn in Lübeck in 1795/96.

Non-fiction

  • Kant's " To Eternal Peace . A Philosophical Draft." The first version is published in 1795 by the Friedrich Nicolovius publishing house in Königsberg. A second expanded edition follows a year later, also by Nicolovius.
  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte: "On the ability to speak and the origin of language."
  • The fourteen-volume complete edition of the works of Helvetius is published by Didot in Paris .

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