1791 in literature

Literature 1791 | 1795 More events

Events

  • January 6: The Théâtre de Monsieur in Paris, Rue Feydeau is opened.
  • May 7: The Weimar court theater was opened under the direction of Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
  • The Stadttheater Grein in Austria was founded. It is the oldest surviving original condition bourgeois theater north of the Alps

New releases

Periodicals

  • December 4: The Observer appears as a weekly newspaper and is the first British Sunday newspaper
  • Moskovskii zhurnal is founded by Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin writer and historian.
  • Cal Jever weekly, founded by Johann Hinrich Borgeest (1783-1803)

Prose

  • James Boswell published in London The Life of Samuel Johnson.
  • A year after he was released from the Bastille, de Sade published the second version of Justine or the adversity of virtue, his first printed book ever. The first version of Les Infortunes de la Vertu of 1781 has not been printed in his lifetime de Sade.
  • Susanna Rowson: Charlotte, a Tale of Truth; Mentoria, or the Young Ladies' Friend
  • Christoph Martin Wieland: Secret History of the philosopher Peregrinus Proteus, novel, published in Leipzig in publishing Goschen.
  • The 15 -year-old Jane Austen wrote the satirical work The History of England and dated it with " Saturday, November 26, 1791 ".
  • Johann Kaspar Steube published his life story under the title peregrinations and fates of Johann Caspar S.

Drama

Poetry

  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe: The Brittle (To the purest spring morning ). Mozart set the poem as an aria in his opera theatrical adventure.
  • Friedrich Hölderlin published his first poems: Hymn to the Muse; Hymn to Liberty; Hymn to the goddess of harmony; Melody Lida; My recovery; Hymn to the beauty; Hymn to humanity

Translations

  • James Newton is the Vitruvius translation from Latin into English out of his Brudes William Newton ( 1735-1790 ). The book is printed in the Taylor Offizin in London.

Scientific works and essays

  • The fourth part of Herder's philosophy of history Hauptwerk Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Humanity
  • Jacob Mauvillon: Man and woman described by their mutual relationships, counterpart to the Scriptures about the women
  • Alexander Fraser Tytler: Essay on Principle of Translation, the first printed book on the theory of translation
  • Constantin François Volney: Les Ruines Ou Méditations Sur Les Révolutions Of Empires appears in Geneva

Born

Died

  • JANUARY 23: Karl Henry of Heinecken, German librarian, writer on art (* 1701)
  • JANUARY 26: Antoine- Gaspard Boucher d' Argis, French jurist, author of legal articles in the Encyclopédie
  • April 2: Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French politician, writer and journalist (* 1749)
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