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From 1795 Goethe and Schiller work closely together. This creative period of 10 years later - also known as " Weimar Classicism " - in the narrow sense.
Mme de Staël, who had retired in 1792 for political reasons on her estate at Coppet on Lake Geneva, returns to Paris to reopen there for a short time her salon. Guests of her salon are, inter alia, the physician and philosopher Pierre -Jean -Georges Cabanis, the playwright Marie -Joseph Chenier, the poet Benjamin Constant, the historian Pierre -Claude Daunou, the politician and philosopher Dominique Joseph Garat and the politician and journalist Pierre -Louis Roederer. Two years later, she is forced - she and her salon are the Directoire suspicious - return to Coppet,
New releases
Periodicals
- Friedrich von Gentz founded the New German monthly magazine. Issues of the magazine, in addition to policy and public finance issues, the Classical literature and education, and especially the contemporary history: the history of the French Revolution, the Constitution of the Directoire in France as well as fundamental issues of democracy and participation. The magazine provides after only three volumes ceased publication.
- The Horen, one edited by Friedrich Schiller monthly magazine is published by Cotta in Tübingen. Staff are among others in addition to Schiller and Goethe Johann Gottfried Herder, August Wilhelm Schlegel and sporadic Karl Theodor von Dalberg, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Johann Heinrich Voss, Sophie Mereau, Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel or Cornelia Schlosser. The magazine presented their 1797 show.
- " Eudaemonia or German people happiness, A journal for friends of truth and justice ," was a reactionary conservative magazine, which was founded in 1795 and existed until 1798.
Prose
- Hesperus or 45 days post- dog, a novel by Jean Paul appears in the bookstore Matzdorff in Berlin.
- Conversations of German Emigrants, novellas by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, are " The Hours " is printed in the volumes 1-4 of Schiller's magazine for the first time.
- Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship is published by Johann Friedrich Unger, Berlin, in two departments of 1795-1796.
- Friedrich Tieck's epistolary novel The History of Mr. William Lovell appears from 1795 /96, as Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig and Berlin.
Poetry
- Close to the beloved, a poem by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, is printed in Schiller's Musen - Almanach for the year 1796.
- The " Weimar Hymns ", edited by Johann Gottfried Herder collection of 595 songs, appears in the Hoffman niches Hofbuchhandlung in Weimar.
- Herder's " Terpsichore ", a collection of poems and short prose pitfalls appear 1795/96 at Bohn in Lübeck in 3 volumes.
Non-fiction
- Schiller published in the " Hours " both his theoretical writings, literature About the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Reyhe of letters (1795 ) and On Naive and Sentimental poet (1795 /96).
- "The basis of the whole theory of science as writing for his audience " (1794 /95), systematic main work of the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte and one of the central works in the post-Kantian idealism.
- Kant's " Perpetual Peace. A Philosophical Sketch. " appear in the first version in 1795 by Verlag Friedrich Nicolovius in Königsberg. A second expanded edition follows a year later, also at Nicolovius.
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte: "From the faculty of speech and the origin of language. "
- The fourteen- volume complete edition of the works of Helvetius appears in Paris in Didot.
Born
- JANUARY 9: Heinrich Wilhelm Hahn the Younger, booksellers, publishers and editors of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae († 1873)
- JANUARY 15: Willem de Clercq, Dutch writer († 1844)
- February 8: Moritz Saphir, Austrian writer († 1858)
- July 2: Karl Gustav Nieritz, German folk and youth writer († 1876)
- JULY 21: Friedrich von Waldersee, Prussian lieutenant general and military writer († 1864)
- August 3: Anne Bignan, French writer and translator of Homer († 1861)
- August 7: Joseph Rodman Drake, American poet († 1820)
- September 29: Kondrati Ryleyev, Russian poet († 1826)
- OCTOBER 5: Karl Ludwig Sand, fraternity, murderer of August von Kotzebue ( † 1820)
- October 17: Johann Christoph Biernatzki, writer († 1840)
- October 31: John Keats, British poet († 1821)
- Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir malaisischer scholar and writer, († 1852). His autobiography is considered an important historical source.