1772 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1772.

Events

March â Gottfried August BÃ¼rger obtains a magistracy and is reconciled with his family.^[1]
May 7 â The Stadsschouwburg theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire.
June
- At Marseilles, the Marquis de Sade embarks on an orgy, as a result of which he is convicted in absentia of sodomy and poisoning and receives a death sentence; he escapes.
- Charles Burney tours Europe, researching for his History of Music.^[2]
September 12 â The GÃ¶ttinger Hainbund of German poets is formed at a midnight ritual in an oaken grove.
November 10 â The wife of poet Pedro Correia GarÃ§Ã£o obtains an order for his release from prison, the very day of his death.
November 28 â Publication of the Bible in the Manx language is completed.^[3]
unknown dates
- Thomas Paine produces his first published work, a political article entitled Case of the Officers of Excise.^[4]
- Hannah More arrives in London.
- An Armenian language press is set up in Chennai, India.

Mark Akenside â Poems
Thomas Chatterton â The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin
William Jones â Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages
William Kenrick â Love in the Suds
William Mason â The English Garden
Christopher Smart â Hymns, for the Amusement of Children
George Alexander Stevens â Songs

Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum (with a preface by Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi)
Moses Browne â The Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ
William Chambers â A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
Junius (possibly Philip Francis) â Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra
Francis Grose â The Antiquities of England and Wales
Johann Gottfried Herder â Abhandlung Ã¼ber den Ursprung der Sprache (Treatise on the Origin of Language)
Richard Hurd â An Introduction to the Study of Prophecies...
Carsten Niebuhr â Beschreibung von Arabien
Joseph Priestley â The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
Francis Stoughton Sullivan (died 1766) â An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law, and the Constitution and Laws of England
Catherine Talbot â Essays on Various Subjects
Wilhelm Abraham Teller â WÃ¶rterbuch des Neuen Testamentes zur ErklÃ¤rung der christlichen Lehre (Dictionary of the New Testament for the Explanation of Christian Doctrine)

January 15 â James Ballantyne, Scottish editor and publisher (died 1833)
March 10 â Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet, literary critic, philosopher and philologist (died 1829)
May 2 â Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg), German poet and philosopher (died 1801)
August 29 â Sarah Burney, English novelist (died 1844)
September 27 â SÃ¡ndor Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet (died 1844)
October 21 â Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (died 1834)
November 28 â Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German classical commentator and philologist (died 1848)
December 6
- John Carr, English travel writer and lawyer (died 1832)
- Henry Cary, Gibraltar-born Irish author, editor and translator (died 1844)
unknown date â Maria Riddell, West Indies-born poet, naturalist and travel writer resident in Scotland (died 1808)^[5]
probable â Charlotte Dacre, English Gothic novelist (died 1825)^[6]

March 26 â Charles Pinot Duclos, French novelist and encyclopedist (born 1704)
March 29 â Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher (born 1688)
May 22 â Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (born 1687)
June â Thomas Whately, English politician and writer (born 1726)
June 18 â Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher (born 1706)
October 7 â John Woolman, American abolitionist author (smallpox, born 1720)^[7]
October 10 â William Wilkie, Scottish poet (ague, born 1721)^[8]
November 10 â Pedro Correia GarÃ§Ã£o, Portuguese poet (born 1724)
unknown dates
- Thomas Hawkins, English editor and cleric (born 1729)
- Margareta Momma, Swedish editor and writer (born 1702)