Literature year 1797

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Literature year 1797
Adolph Müller: Schiller, Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Jena, around 1797 The ballad year of Goethe and Schiller , a high point of the Weimar Classic .

Events

In ballads years writes

• Friedrich Schiller The Diver , The Glove , The Cranes of Ibykus , The Ring of Polycrates and The Walk to the Iron Hammer and Knight Toggenburg .
• The treasure digger , The Sorcerer's Apprentice , The Bride of Corinth , Legend as well as God and the Bajadere and The New Pausias and His Flower Girl are created under Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's pen .

Friedrich Schlegel,
On the Study of Greek Poetry

• With the essay on the study of Greek poetry, Friedrich Schlegel wants to become a " Winckelmann of literature". In addition to preprints from it, he has also reviewed the Musenalmanach for the year 1796 by Schiller in the journal Deutschland by Johann Friedrich Reichardt . In the Musenalmanach for the year 1797 , the "Xenien-Almanach", Schiller directs a considerable number of his Xenien on the young Schlegel. When he published his notorious review of Schiller's magazine Die Horen and accused Karl Ludwig Woltmann of plagiarism , there was a break with Schiller. Friedrich Schlegel goes to Berlin for two years.

• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling publishes a fundamental philosophical text of Romanticism : Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature

• The comedy Médiocre et rampant by Louis-Benoît Picard will premiere in Paris on July 19th.

• Józef Wybicki writes the text for Mazurek Dąbrowskiego ( Poland is not yet lost ), today's national anthem of Poland.

Libraries

• The Venetian Admiral Giacomo Nani donates the family collection of cards and around 1000 mostly Greek and Oriental manuscripts to the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.

Periodicals

• The cosmopolitan. A monthly publication for the promotion of true and general humanity. appears in Halle from January 1797 to June 1798.
• The Helvetische Hudibras is the second newspaper of the Swiss canton of Solothurn . It is edited by Franz Josef Gassmann .
• Magazine for Westphalia. Ed .: PF Weddigen, A. Mallinckrodt, W. Schmemann, Dortmund 1.1797-3.1799
• The Horen , published by Cotta , will be discontinued after 3 years.

More new releases

Immanuel Kant, 1791

Poetry

• The oak trees. and Der Wanderer , by Hölderlin , are printed in Schiller's Die Horen .

Non-fiction

• Immanuel Kant : The Metaphysics of Morals , divided into two parts

1. Metaphysical foundations of legal theory

2. Metaphysical foundations of the doctrine of virtues

• Immanuel Kant's essay On a supposed right to lie out of philanthropy is printed for the first time in the first year of the Berlinische Blätter .

Born

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, 1838

Mary Shelley, 1840

Heinrich Heine, 1831

• 0January 6 : Edward Turner Bennett , English zoologist and writer († 1836 )
• January 10 : Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , German writer († 1848 )
• January 10 : Karl August Koberstein , German literary historian († 1870 )
• January 26th : Therese von Jacob , German writer, folk song researcher and Slavist († 1870 )
• January 27 : Francesco Ambrosoli , Italian educator, philologist and writer († 1868 )
• 0February 1 : Leopold Immanuel Rückert , Protestant theologian († 1871 )
• February 11 : Connop Thirlwall , British clergyman and writer († 1875 )
• February 25 : Johann Wilhelm Neumann , German lawyer, local politician and historian († 1870 )
• February 27 : Wilhelm Meinhold , German writer and pastor († 1851 )
• March 27 : Alfred de Vigny , French writer († 1863 )
• 0April 9 : Per Ulrik Kernell , Swedish romantic writer († 1824 )
• April 16 : Adolphe Thiers , French statesman and historian († 1877 )
• May 16 : August Wissowa , German classical philologist and pedagogue († 1868 )
• June 17 : Alexandre Vinet , Swiss theologian and literary historian († 1847 )
• July 15 : Eduard Vieweg , German publisher († 1869 )
• July 23 : Charles Jules Labarte , French art historian († 1880 )
• August 28 : Karl Otfried Müller , German classical philologist and archaeologist († 1840 )
• August 30 : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , English writer († 1851 )
• September 16 : Antonio Panizzi , Italian librarian († 1879 )
• September 19 : Bernhard Sökeland , philologist and historian († 1845 )
• 0October 4 : Jeremias Gotthelf , Swiss writer († 1854 )
• October 14 : Ida Pfeiffer , Austrian explorer and travel writer († 1858 )
• October 15 : Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse , German classical philologist and linguist († 1855 )
• December 13 : Heinrich Heine , German poet and journalist († 1856 )

Died

• January 14th : Johann Samuel Diterich , German hymn poet (* 1721 )
• February 22nd : Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen , Baron Münchhausen (* 1720 )
• 0March 2 : Horace Walpole , British writer, politician and artist (* 1717 )
• March 18 : Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter , German writer (* 1746 )
• March 19 : Sophie von Kühn , fiancee of Friedrich von Hardenberg ( Novalis ) (* 1782 )
• March 31 : Olaudah Equiano , Nigerian slave and writer (* 1745 )
• 0April 1 : Johann Peter Snell , German Protestant theologian (* 1720 )
• 0May 1st : Franz Anton von Hartig , Austrian diplomat, historian, poet and geographer (* 1758 )
• May 27 : François Noël Babeuf , French agitator and journalist (* 1760 )
• May 29 : Karl Joseph Bouginé , German theologian and teacher (* 1735 )
• 0July 9 : Edmund Burke , writer, state philosopher and politician (* 1729 )
• 0August 8 : Franz Alexander von Kleist , poet (* 1769 )
• August 21 : Benedict Stattler , German Catholic theologian, educator and philosopher (* 1728 )
• September 10 : Mary Wollstonecraft , English writer and suffragette (* 1759 )
• September 28 : Samuel Luther von Geret , German Protestant theologian, lawyer and politician (* 1730 )
• September 30th : Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer (* 1750 ), German historian and legal scholar

Footnotes and individual references

1. ^ Article in the invitation to literary studies by Jochen Vogt
2. ↑ d-nb.info
3. ↑ Ernst Behler : Early Romanticism. 1992, p. 95
4. ↑ Frieder of Ammon: inhospitable gifts: the "Xenia" Goethe and Schiller and their literary reception from 1796 to the present. Volume 123 of Studies on German Literary History, 2005, p. 27
5. ↑ see: Ernst Behler: Early Romanticism. 1992, p. 96 ; Statement by F. Schlegel in: Intellgenzblatt der Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung from 1797, No. 76, p. 631; Contents of Germany XI, XII in: Allgemeine Litterarischer Anzeiger , supplement to No. LVIII, May 16, 1797, p. 617
6. ↑ Schelling's natural philosophy ( memento from July 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in the topic: Novalis des Bayern2-radioWissen, accessed January 31, 2014
7. ^ The cosmopolitan online at journals @ UrMEL of the University of Jena
8. ↑ Magazine for Westphalen online in the project of the University of Bielefeld
9. ↑ The oak trees. online in the project of the University of Bielefeld
10. ↑ The Wanderer friedrich-schiller-archiv.de; Hölderlin published the elegy »The Wanderer« twice. The first time in 1797 in Schiller's »Horen«, the second time in a heavily revised form in 1801 in an almanac »Flora. Dedicated to Germany's daughters «. »The Wanderer« is Hölderlin's first elegy and its genesis is the document of a story of suffering: the relationship between Hölderlin and Schiller. ” Www.textkritik.de , accessed January 31, 2014