Göttinger Musenalmanach was the title of two different literary magazines published in Göttingen , Germany, one running from 1770 to 1807, the other 1896 to 1953. A Musen-Almanach was a kind of literary annual, and the Göttingen magazine of 1770 was the first German example.
5-494: The first issue was published by Johann Christian Dieterich , and edited by Heinrich Christian Boie and Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter . Later issues were sometimes also titled Poetische Blumenlese , or Göttingenscher Musenalmanach . The magazine was taken over by Karl Reinhard , and editions appeared in Waldeck and Münster . The magazine was modelled on French literary magazine Almanach des Muses . The Göttingische Musenalmanach
10-558: A close friend of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . He published the first Musen-Almanach . Dieterich was born in Stendal . He began his career as proprietor of a silk shop in Berlin , which he moved to Gotha . In 1749 he married the daughter of the bookseller Mevius and began running his shop for him. In 1760 he started a new bookshop in Göttingen , printed a few books, and in 1770 established
15-515: A publishing house. Among the most famous authors whose works he published are Gottfried August Bürger and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . He was a close friend of the latter, and between 1776 and his death in 1799, Lichtenberg lived in the Dieterich family's house. On his travels he wrote many long letters to the Dieterichs. Dieterich died in Göttingen . His son Heinrich (1761-1837) continued running
20-575: A revival, Neuer Göttinger Musenalmanach , dates from 1832.) In 1896 Börries von Münchhausen began a new Göttinger Musenalmanach . It was published by Horstmann until 1905, and then by the University of Göttingen until its final closure in 1953. Johann Christian Dieterich Johann Christian Dieterich (1722 –1800) was the founder of the Dieterich’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung [ de ] publishing house and
25-731: Was the voice of the Göttinger Hainbund , a group of students now classified as part of the Sturm und Drang movement. Members included Boie, Carl Christian Clauswitz , Carl Friedrich Cramer , Christian Hieronymus Esmarch , Schack Hermann Ewald , Johann Friedrich Hahn , Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty , Johann Anton Leisewitz , Johann Martin Miller , Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg and Johann Heinrich Voss . Five facsimiles of editions of Göttinger Musenalmanachen (1771, 1772, 1774, 1778 and 1793) are available online: (An earlier attempt at
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