1762 in literature

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Events

• Diderot learns in the salon of Baron d' Holbach Lawrence know stars who sends him the first part of his novel Tristram Shandy.

Prose

• Volume 5 and 6 of the nine -part novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne appear.
• Charlotte Lennox released her fourth novel Sophia.

Poetry

• The Croatian writer Matija Antun Relković written his most important work Satyr or The Wild One man, a band with didactic poems.

Drama

• January 5: The play Il re cervo ( König Hirsch ) by Carlo Gozzi has its world premiere at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice.
• January 22: The tragicomic tale of Turandot by Carlo Gozzi has its world premiere at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice.
• January 23: The play Much Ado in Chiozza by Carlo Goldoni will be premiered in the Teatro San Luca Venetischem dialect in Venice.
• October 25: The play La donna serpente ( The Snake Woman ) by Carlo Gozzi has its world premiere at the Teatro Sant ' Angelo in Venice.

• The comedy The Sister of Charlotte Lennox appears.

Scientific works

• In April, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's state scientific work published in Amsterdam You contrat social ou Principes du droit politique ( The Social Contract or Principles of constitutional law ), which is now banned in France, the Netherlands, Geneva and Bern. In Paris and Geneva, a warrant for his arrest is issued. Also be appearing in the same year pedagogical work Emile, or on education is prohibited.

• Giovanni Battista Morgagni, professor of anatomy at the University of Padua, published an expanded edition of his six-part Adversaria Omnia Anatomica.
• The first volume of plates ( Agriculture - Art militaire ) appears indexed by the Catholic Church Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers of Denis Diderot and Louis de Jaucourt.
• Horace Walpole wrote Some Anecdotes of Painting in England.

Born

• August 9: Mary Randolph, American housewife and author of Housekeeping and cookbooks († 1828)
• 13 August: Johann Christoph Sachse, German writer and library servants under JW von Goethe († 1822)
• August 15: John Otto Thiess, German Lutheran theologian and writer († 1810)

• October 21: George Colman the Younger, English writer († 1836)
• OCTOBER 28: Karl Philipp Conz, German poet and writer († 1827)
• October 29: André Chénier, French writer († 1794)

• December 21: Karl Friedrich Gottlob Hirsching, German polymath and lexicographer († 1800)
• 26th December: Johann Gaudenzdorfer of Salis - Buchen, Swiss poet († 1834)

• Susanna Rowson, American writer and actress, († 1824)
• Friederike Juliane of mold man, German nobleman, the center of the circle Emkendorfer († 1816)

Died

• February 2: Friedrich customs man, Saxon archivist, historian and cartographer (* 1690)
• MARCH 24: Johann Gottfried Zentgrav, German Protestant theologian, orator and literary scholar (* 1722)
• May 27: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (* 1714)

• June 8: Theophil Georgi, German booksellers, publishers and bibliographer (* 1674)
• June 17: Prosper Jolyot Crébillon, French dramatist (* 1674)
• June 26: Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched, German writer (* 1713)

• July 7: Johann Georg Bock, German literary scholar and poet (* 1698 )
• August 21: Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (* 1689)
• September 5: Johann Christian Crell, Saxon notary, historian and bookseller (* 1690)

• December: Mary Collyer, British novelist and translator (* 1716 /17)
• DECEMBER 13: Jonathan Krause, German Protestant theologian and church hymn writer (* 1701)

• Richard Bathurst, a British physician and writer (* 1722/23)
• Johann Jakob Korn, German printer and publisher (* 1702)