1772 in literature

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The Hainberg covenant was founded on 12 September 1772 by Johann Heinrich Voss, Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, Johann Martin Miller, Gottlieb Dieterich Miller, Johann Friedrich Hahn and John Thomas Ludwig weir on the Kerst Linger The desolate field near the university town of Göttingen. The founding members had met partly by their contributions to the literary magazine "Göttingen Musenalmanach ", which was founded in 1770 by Heinrich Christian Boie, partly by their common studies. By no later than 1772 the Göttingen Musenalmanach was the mouthpiece of the Hainbund.

End of the year, Diderot decided to accept an invitation of Catherine II and breaks down in the following year on a journey to Russia.

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Periodicals

• The Jew was one of Gottfried Selig (1722-1795), lecturer at the University of Leipzig, in 1772, published weekly. The magazine presented after four years and a total of nine volumes ceased publication.

• The Morning Post was a ultra-conservative London newspaper and the exclusive organ of the British court and the fashionable world. She appeared from 1772 to 1937, when it was taken over by the Daily Telegraph.

• The Paderbornische Intelligence Journal, the official newsletter of the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn, was issued at the request of Wilhelm Anton von der Asseburg 1772 for the first time. The sheet set 1849 his appearance.

• Historical Journal. Members of the Royal Historical Institute in Göttingen. Edited by Johann Christoph Gatterer 1772-1781

Poetry

• Salomon Gessner had his 1756 published idylls, which were extremely popular in Germany and had become a bestseller in 1772 to follow a second volume.
• Mahomet song, a poem by Goethe, written 1772/73.

Prose

• Diderot's Essay reasons to mourn my old house rock, or: A warning to all who have more taste than money, which he wrote in 1768 and was distributed in the following year in Grimm's Correspondance littéraire, is as a booklet and without the consent of Diderot by the writer and Karlsruhe Prince educator Friedrich Dominicus ring (1726-1799) printed.

• As of February 1772 appear Diderot's Pensées sur la peinture détachées, la sculpture, l'architecture et la poésie, in which he formulated aphorisms like basics on the visual arts, in Grimm's Correspondance.

• Jacques Cazotte, a French writer who was close to the Martinist and her theosophical - mystical ideas, published his fantastic novel Le Diable Amoureux: The officer and braggart alvars de Maravillas invokes the devil who appears to him in the form of a beautiful woman and promptly in Alvares love. The novel is considered the forerunner of modern fantasy literature.

• The golden mirror or the kings of Scheschian a true story, a novel by Christoph Martin Wieland, printed by Weidmann in Leipzig.

Drama

• On March 13, 1772 Philippine Duchess Charlotte is at the Ducal opera house in Brunswick Lessing's Emilia Galotti by Karl Theophil Döbbelin on the occasion of the birthday premiered.

• Samuel Foote's comedy The Nabob will be premiered on June 29, 1772 at the Haymarket Theatre.

• The Comedy The Fashionable Lover Richard Cumberland premiered in January 1772 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London.
• The Comedy The Irish Widow ' by David Garrick will be premiered on October 23, 1772 at the Drury Lane Theatre
• On December 16, will be premiered in Milan at the Teatro Regio Ducal Mozart's opera Lucio Silla to a libretto by Giovanni di Gamerra.
• Le Depositaire, Verskomödie in 5 acts of Voltaire, printed by François Grasset in Lausanne, will be performed in Lyon

Scientific works

• Herder wins with his treatises on the origin of language the proclaimed by the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1769 competition for the answer to the question " Are people who leave their natural abilities, able to invent language, and if so, by what means did you come to? "
• The last volume of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers appear 1772 in Paris. The first volume of Diderot together with d' Alembert published work came out in 1751. From 1776 to 1777 yet was followed by a four-volume Supplément and a volume of plates that were issued by the publisher Charles -Joseph Panckoucke and by Jean -Baptiste -René Robinet.

• William Hamilton, 1764-1800 British Ambassador to Naples, published by Cadell in London his Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcano's: in a series of letters Addressed to the Royal Society from the Honorable Sir William Hamilton. The German translation came a year later in Berlin publishing Haude and Spener, under the title Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna and other volcanoes. In a series of letters to the Royal United Britannic Society of Sciences. In addition to new explanatory notes of the Lord author out.

• The description of Arabia. From our own observations and in the country itself gesammleten News abgefasset by Carsten Niebuhr, dedicated to the Danish king, in which he tells of his undertaken between 1761-1767 expedition to the countries of the Arab and Near East region, is printed in Copenhagen.

Translations

• The German translation of the Qur'an "The Turkish Bible, or the Koran very first teutsche translation from the original Arabic " by M. David Friederich Megerlin appears in 1772 in the publishing Gottlieb sheaf in Frankfurt am Main. In the same year the output is critically discussed in the "Frankfurter scholars ads " that are edited in 1772 by Goethe.

Born

• February 2: Frans Michael Franzén, Swedish poet and Protestant bishop († 1847)
• March 10: Friedrich Schlegel, German writer and philosopher, representative of the Jena Early Romanticism and founder of the modern humanities († 1829)
• APRIL 21: Friedrich Christoph Perthes, German booksellers and publishers († 1843)
• May 2: Novalis, German poets of the early Romantic period († 1801)
• September 14: Josef Alois DC, Austrian officials and playwright († 1841)
• November 2, Johann Ladislaus Pyrker, Austrian poet and a Roman Catholic bishop († 1847)