1788

Events in 1788 6

• 1714 – 1788 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Empfindsamer Stil pioneer Son of J.S. Bach and a key bridge between Baroque and Classical styles. His expressive keyboard works influenced Haydn and Beethoven.
• 1727 – 1788 Thomas Gainsborough Rococo · England Thomas Gainsborough (May 14, 1727 – August 2, 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, one of the founders of the Royal Academy. His Blue Boy and Mr and Mrs Andrews are among the most celebrated British paintings.
• 1760 – 1788 Hutton — deep geological time The Earth is inconceivably old — "no vestige of a beginning" James Hutton of Edinburgh, through observation of Scottish rock formations, concluded in his Theory of the Earth (1788) that geological processes — erosion, deposition, uplift — operate extremely slowly and have been doing so for an immense time. His famous phrase "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end" introduced the concept of deep time. His work was essential for Darwin, who needed vast geological time for evolution to operate.
• 1788 – 1860 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Died 21 September 1860, aged 72 Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher best known for The World as Will and Representation, which argued that a blind, striving will underlies all existence. Largely ignored for most of his career, he gained wide recognition only in his final years. He died in Frankfurt on 21 September 1860.
• 1788 – 1845 Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845) Died 17 June 1845, aged 56 Richard Harris Barham was an English clergyman and humorous writer. Under the pen name Thomas Ingoldsby he wrote The Ingoldsby Legends. These comic tales in verse and prose were among the most popular books of Victorian England.
• 1788 – 1824 Lord Byron English Romantic poet Byron became a leading Romantic figure through emotionally intense poetry and a dramatic public persona.