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

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, 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 examp ...

'' 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

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, and edited by

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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

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. The magazine was modelled on

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literary magazine ''

Almanach des Muses ''L'Almanach des Muses'' was a French-language poetry magazine published in Paris, France. History and profile ''Almanach des Muses'' was founded in 1765 by Sautreau de Marsy. The magazine was much in vogue during the second half of the 18th cen ...

''. The ''Göttingische Musenalmanach'' was the voice of the '' Göttinger Hainbund'', 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,

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Johann Friedrich Hahn Johann Friedrich Hahn (28 December 1753 in Gießen – 30 May 1779 in Zweibrücken) was a German lyric poet. Hahn, an evangelical Lutheran, began his studies on 22 April 1771 at the University of Göttingen, first law, then theology. On 12 Sep ...

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 ...

, Johann Anton Leisewitz, Johann Martin Miller,

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 ...

and

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

. 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 a ...

'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 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 i ...

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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