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  • 2.1 First half of
  • 2.2 Second half of
  • 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Prose

  • With the novel The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto ( The Castle of Otranto ) founded the British politician and writer Horace Walpole the genre of the Gothic novel.
  • Marie Jeanne Ricco de Bonis History Miss Jenny is printed in Paris in Brocas & Humblot.
  • John Cleland released The surprises of love, four romantic stories.

Drama

  • The 24 -year-old Nicolas Chamfort celebrates on the Paris stage success with his comedy La jeune indienne ( The young Indian woman ), which is based on the popular theme at this time of the contrast between the natural and the cultural condition.

Periodicals

  • October 29: The newspaper The Hartford Courant published in Hartford, Connecticut - provisionally as a weekly edition - first time.

Non-fiction

  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann is the history of the art of antiquity out in two volumes.
  • Voltaire 's Philosophical Dictionary Dictionnaire Philosophique be out in Geneva anonymously Gabriel Grasset. The first edition under the title Dictionnaire Philosophique portatif with 73 cues was in 1765, 1767 and 1769 increased from Voltaire two volumes with 120 keywords. The book, a challenge to the Christian religion and the Catholic church, is burned in the same year in Geneva on 19 March 1765 in Paris.
  • Otto Friedrich Müller published the work fauna Insectorum Fridrichsdalina, containing, among other things, the first description of early reed Hunter, in which he describes, however, the male and the female as different species.
  • Thomas Reid written at the University of Aberdeen, the philosophical work on Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense.

Religion

  • FEBRUARY 27: Pope Clement XIII. prohibits the reading of under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius previously published in book De statu ecclesiae et legitima potestate Romani Pontificis liber singularis and puts it on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The distribution of the thoughts of Febronianism through several reprints will not stop that. The Auxiliary Bishop of Trier Johann Nikolaus von Honthorst home is years later imposed a revocation after his exposure as a writer.

Book trade

  • Several North German bookseller under the leadership of the Leipzig Philipp Erasmus Reich decide hinkünftig stay away from the Catholic -dominated Frankfurt Book Fair, and to present their new entries only at the Leipzig Book Fair.

Born

First half year

  • MARCH 23: Friedrich Schmidt of Werneuchen, Prussian Protestant clergyman and poet († 1838)
  • April 1: Johann Evangelist Reiter, German Catholic priest, geometer, fresco painter, sculptor, stonemason, musician, architect and writer († 1835)
  • APRIL 14: Firmin Didot, French typographer and writer († 1836)
  • April 20: Rudolph Ackermann, German - British bookseller, lithographer, publisher and entrepreneur († 1834)
  • APRIL 21: Johann Christian August Heyse, German pedagogue, grammarian and lexicographer († 1829)
  • APRIL 27: Johann Friedrich Cotta, German publisher, industrial pioneer and politician ( † 1832)
  • May 2: Friedrich von Gentz ​​, German -Austrian writer and journalist, political theorist and politician ( † 1832)
  • May 7: Therese Huber, German writer († 1829)
  • MAY 11: Konrad Engelbert Oelsner, German publicist ( † 1828)
  • MAY 18: Johann Christian Andreas Löhr, German Protestant theologian and writer Youth († 1823)
  • June 7: Karl Heinrich von Lang, Bavarian historian and publicist ( † 1835)
  • JUNE 13: Erduin Julius Koch, German literature historian († 1834)
  • June 23: Gabriel -Marie Legouvé, French writer, translator and playwright († 1812)

Second half- year

  • July 9: Ann Radcliffe, English writer, popular representative of the Gothic novel († 1823)
  • JULY 19: Christoph Celestine Mrongovius, Prussian Protestant pastor, writer, philosopher, linguist, teacher and translator († 1855)
  • July 27: John Thelwall, a British political orator, journalist and author († 1834)
  • August 9: Caroline Auguste Fischer, German writer and suffragist († 1842)
  • August 14: Franz Xaver Gewey, Austrian officials, actors and writers († 1819)
  • October 6: Johann Gottfried Ebel, German geographical writer († 1830)
  • October 6: Friedrich Jacobs, German classical scholar, writer and numismatist († 1847)
  • OCTOBER 19: Victor- Joseph Étienne de Jouy, French soldier, politician, writer and librettist († 1846)
  • October 22: Johann Georg Tinius, German theologian, bibliomaniac and criminals († 1846)
  • October 24: Dorothea Brendel Mendelssohn, German literary critic and writer of romance, wife of Friedrich Schlegel ( † 1839)

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Karl Friedrich Benko joke, German dramatist and poet († 1807)
  • Rudolf Gräffer, Austrian publishers († 1817)
  • Karl Gottfried Jehnichen, German educator and literary critic († 1790)
  • Christiane Sophie Ludwig, German writer († 1815)
  • Gaetano Polidori, Italian - British writer and scholar († 1853)

Died

  • June 3: Hans Adolph Brorson, Danish bishop and hymn writer (* 1694 )
  • JUNE 11: Johann Siegmund Strebel, German librarian and civil servant (* 1700)
  • June 25: Wilhelm Ernst Strong, German Reformed theologian, scholar and hymn writer (* 1692 )
  • JULY 30: Philipp Hafner, Austrian writer and literary critic (* 1735)
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