1761 in literature
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Prose
The epistolary novel Letters of two lovers appears from a small town at the foot of the Alps by Jean -Jacques Rousseau. The book, which is better known later under the name Julie or the New Heloise, is one of the greatest literary achievements of the 18th century and experienced to its end at least 70 runs. Because of its socially critical content, the book of the Church on the Index Librorum is set Prohibitorum.
- In London, Volume 3 and 4 of the nine -volume novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne appear.
- Denis Diderot begins with the work of Le Neveu de Rameau.
- The English writer Sarah Fielding published the novel The History of Ophelia. The German translation of her novel The History of the Countess of Dellwyn, History of the Countess of Dellwyn whose authorship is attributed to her brother Henry, however, appears in the same year.
Scientific works
- January 3: The scholars contributions in writing to the Brunswick Show, originally an integral part of the first time on 1745 published newspaper Braunschweigische ads are separated from the "Show" and published separately from then on. First editor of this scientific essays is Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae.
- The astronomer Georg Christoph Silber shock published on June 13, his findings from the Venus transit of June 6th and his thesis about the atmosphere of Venus in the Magdeburg privileged newspaper and also theories about life on Venus on this occasion.
- At the age of 80 years published the Venetian physician and anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni, professor at the University of Padua, his major work, the five books of De sedibus et causis morborum by anatomist indagatis ( The seat and the causes of the diseases tracked by the anatomy) and thus the founder of modern pathology.
- The essay Essai de Chemistry more Méchanique by Georges -Louis Le Sage, in the Le Sage gravitation is described in detail, was first published.
Translations
- In Leipzig, the translation of Charlotte Lennox's Henrietta third novel published by Weidmann under the title Henriette.
Born
- JANUARY 26: Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian poet († 1821)
- March 8: Jan Count Potocki, Polish novelist, historian and anthropologist († 1815)
- March 11: Friedrich Vieweg, German publisher, founder of Vieweg Verlag († 1835)
- MAY 3: August von Kotzebue, German dramatist and writer († 1819)
- SEPTEMBER 21: Matthias Conrad Peterson, Norwegian journalist († 1833)
- October 2: Karl Friedrich Reinhard, French diplomat, statesman and writer († 1837)
- OCTOBER 15: Benedict Arnstein, Austrian writer († 1841)
- NOVEMBER 1: Angelo Anelli, Italian librettist and writer († 1820)