''Göttinger Musenalmanach'' was the title of two different literary magazines published in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

, Germany, one running from 1770 to 1807, the other 1896 to 1953. A ''

Musen-Almanach A ''Musen-Almanach'' ("Muses' Almanac") was a kind of literary annual, popular in Germany from 1770 into the mid-19th century. They were modelled on the '' Almanach des Muses'' published in Paris from 1765. Development in the 1770s The first exam ...

'' was a kind of literary annual, and the Göttingen magazine of 1770 was the first German example.

''Göttinger Musenalmanach'' (1770–1807)

The first issue was published by

Johann Christian Dieterich Johann Christian Dieterich (1722The '' Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie'' gives 1712, but this contradicts church records.–1800) was the founder of the Dieterich'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung publishing house and a close friend of Georg Christoph ...

, and edited by Heinrich Christian Boie and

Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (3 September 1746 – 18 March 1797) was a German poet and dramatist. Biography He was born at Gotha. He started out studying law, but early on was influenced to write for the theatre. After the completion of his univer ...

. Later issues were sometimes also titled ''Poetische Blumenlese'', or ''Göttingenscher Musenalmanach''. The magazine was taken over by

Karl Reinhard Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austri ...

, and editions appeared in Waldeck and

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

. The magazine was modelled on French literary magazine '' Almanach des Muses''. The ''Göttingische Musenalmanach'' was the voice of the ''

Göttinger Hainbund The ''Göttinger Hainbund'' ("Grove League of Göttingen") was a German literary group in the late 18th century, nature-loving and classified as part of the ''Sturm und Drang'' movement. Origin and description It was by means of a midnight ritual ...

'', a group of students now classified as part of the ''

Sturm und Drang ''Sturm und Drang'' (, ; usually translated as "storm and stress") was a proto- Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s. Within the movement, individual subjectivity and, in particul ...

'' movement. Members included Boie, Carl Christian Clauswitz, Carl Friedrich Cramer, Christian Hieronymus Esmarch, Schack Hermann Ewald, Johann Friedrich Hahn,

Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (21 December 1748 – 1 September 1776) was a German poet, known especially for his ballads. Hölty was born in the Electorate of Hanover in the village of Mariensee (today part of Neustadt am Rübenberge) where h ...

Johann Anton Leisewitz Johann Anton Leisewitz (born 9 May 1752 in Hanover, died 10 September 1806 in Braunschweig) was a German lawyer and dramatic poet, and a central figure of the Sturm und Drang era. He is best known for his play '' Julius of Taranto'' (1776), that in ...

Johann Martin Miller Johann Martin Miller (3 December 1750 in Ulm – 21 June 1814 in Ulm) was a German theologian and writer. He is best known for his novel ''Siegwart'', which became one of the most successful books at the time. Life Miller, the son of the Ev ...

Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (7 November 1750 – 5 December 1819), was a German lawyer, and translator born at Bramstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark). He was also a poet of the ''Sturm und Drang'' and early Romantic p ...

and

Johann Heinrich Voss Johann Heinrich Voss (german: Johann Heinrich Voß, ; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a Germans, German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's ''Odyssey'' (1781) and ''Iliad'' (1793) into German language, German ...

. Five facsimiles of editions of ''Göttinger Musenalmanachen'' (1771, 1772, 1774, 1778 and 1793) are available online:
Musen Almanach A MDCCLXXI
(PDF file; 14.68 MB)
MVSENALMANACH MDCCLXXII
(PDF file; 15.93 MB)
Musen Almanach A MDCCLXXIV
- includes

Gottfried August Bürger Gottfried August Bürger (31 December 1747 – 8 June 1794) was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, '' Lenore'', found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian ada ...

's " Lenore". (PDF file; 15.24 MB)
Musen Almanach A MDCCLXXVIII
(PDF file; 11.41 MB)
MVSEN ALMANACH 1793
- includes political poems by G. A. Bürger. (PDF file; 13.49 MB)

''Göttinger Musenalmanach'' (1896–1953)

(An earlier attempt at a revival, ''Neuer Göttinger Musenalmanach'', dates from 1832.) In 1896

Börries von Münchhausen Börries Albrecht Conon August Heinrich Freiherr von Münchhausen (20 March 1874 – 16 March 1945) was a German poet and Nazi activist. Biography He was born in Hildesheim, the eldest child of Kammerherr Börries von Münchhausen and his ...

began a new ''Göttinger Musenalmanach''. It was published by Horstmann until 1905, and then by the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

until its final closure in 1953.

Bibliography

* Hans Grantzow: ''Geschichte des Göttinger und des Vossischen Musenalmanachs''. Dissertation, Berlin 1909. * York-Gothart Mix: ''Die deutschen Musen-Almanache des 18. Jahrhunderts''. Beck, München 1987, . * Carl Christian Redlich: ''Versuch eines Chiffernlexikons zu den Göttinger, Voßischen, Schillerschen und Schlegel-Tieckschen Musenalmanachen''. Hamburg 1875
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