Buddenbrooks ( 1901 ), by Thomas Mann ( 1875 – 1955 ), chronicles the moral decay of a rich family through its declines, material and spiritual, in the course of four generations, beginning with the patriarch Johann Buddenbrook Sr. and his son, Johann Buddenbrook Jr., who are typically successful German businessmen ; each is a reasonable man of solid character.

* 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

By 1801 Ritter observed thermoelectric currents and anticipated the discovery of thermoelectricity by Thomas Johann Seebeck.

In 1821, Estonian-German physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck demonstrated the electrical potential in the juncture points of two dissimilar metals when there is a heat difference between the joints.

Other books found in the Harmony Society's library in Economy, include those by the following authors: Christoph Schütz, Gottfried Arnold, Justinus Kerner, Thomas Bromley, Jane Leade, Johann Scheible ( Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses ), Paracelsus, and Georg von Welling, among others.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

Notable practitioners of elegiac poetry have included Propertius, Jorge Manrique, Jan Kochanowski, Chidiock Tichborne, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Thomas Gray, Charlotte Turner Smith, William Cullen Bryant, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Evgeny Baratynsky, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Louis Gallet, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Virginia Woolf.

Innocenzo Manzetti, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison, among others, have all been credited with pioneering work on the telephone.

In 1821, the German – Estonian physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck discovered that when any conductor is subjected to a thermal gradient, it will generate a voltage.

Image: Johann Christian Bach by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Johann Christian Bach, ( 1776 )

Famous scientists who experimented with such tubes included Thomas Edison, Eugen Goldstein, Nikola Tesla, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf among many others.

* April 15 Repeat performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

* April 11 – Première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion ( BWV 244b ) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

* March 30 – 2nd performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion BWV 245 ( including 5 movements from his " Weimarer Passion ") at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

In the early 19th century, the concept of the visible spectrum became more definite, as light outside the visible range was discovered and characterized by William Herschel ( infrared ) and Johann Wilhelm Ritter ( ultraviolet ), Thomas Young, Thomas Johann Seebeck, and others.

At Baden-in-Aargau from 21 May until 18 June 1526 a public disputation on the doctrine of transubstantiation was held, in which Eck and Thomas Murner were pitted against Johann Oecolampadius.

“ Frederick Town ” was laid out by Daniel Dulany — a land speculator — in 1745 ; it was settled by a German immigrant party led by a young German Reformed schoolmaster from the Rhineland Palatinate named Johann Thomas Schley ( d. 1790 ), who came to the Maryland colony with his wife, Maria Winz.

* 1821 — Thomas Johann Seebeck invents the thermocouple

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther ( Die Leiden des jungen Werthers ) which is influential in the Sturm und Drang movement and Romanticism.

In Johann David Wyss's novel The Swiss Family Robinson, set in the 1790s, portable soup makes a number of appearances, the youngest son Franz first mistakes it for glue, and then later suggests it be used as a substitute.

" In Johann Wyss ' novel Swiss Family Robinson, the youngest son Franz is entrusted with a bull buffalo to raise, and from which gains comparison to Milo.

* Laertes is a character in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.

In Mikhail Bulgakov's 1940 ( published 1967 ) novel, The Master and Margarita, Johann Strauss conducts the orchestra during Satan's Great Ball at the invitation of Behemoth.

The TV series is an adaptation of the Johann David Wyss novel The Swiss Family Robinson.

In 1793-94 he met Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang Goethe and began writing his epistolary novel Hyperion.

Both paintings illustrate the 1849 gothic novel Sidonia the Sorceress by Lady Wilde, a translation of Sidonia Von Bork: Die Klosterhexe ( 1847 ) by Johann Wilhelm Meinhold.

Werther is an opera (' Drame lyrique ') in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, based on the German epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, based partly on fact and Goethe's own early life.

The Swiss Family Robinson ( German: Der Schweizerische Robinson ) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.

Written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance.

This short novel tells the story of the ethnic Estonian painter Johann Köler ( 1826-1899 ) who had become a famous portrait-painter at the Russian court in Saint Petersburg.

The novel is mentioned in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Jane Austen's Emma, Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins, Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, as well as his Dichtung und Wahrheit.

Johann Rudolf Wyss ( March 4, 1782-March 21, 1830 ) was a Swiss author, writer, and folklorist who wrote the words to the former Swiss national anthem Rufst Du, mein Vaterland in 1811, and also edited the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, written by his father Johann David Wyss in 1814.

* The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

* In Robert A. Heinlein's novel I Will Fear No Evil, the protagonist, Johann Sebastian Bach Smith, at one point refers to himself as " the seventh son of a seventh son, born under a caul.

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship () is the second novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1795-96.

388, is a waltz medley composed by Johann Strauss II in 1880 with its themes drawn from the operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königin ( The Queen's Lace Handkerchief ) inspired by a novel by Heinrich Bohrmann-Riegen.

The novel intertwines the discovery of the chemical structure of DNA with the musicality of Johann Sebastian Bach's harpsichord composition, the Goldberg Variations.

Likewise, fellow French Enlightenment author Rousseau, especially his Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) and of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel, Die Leiden des jungen Werther ( The Sorrows of Young Werther ) ( 1774 ).

The waltz came after a successful premiere of his famous operetta Die Fledermaus and Strauss originally entitled the waltz as ' Bella Italia ' ( Beautiful Italy ) for his Italian audiences before renaming it ' Wo die Zitronen blühen ' after a quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel ' Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre ' — ' Kennst du das Land wo die Zitronen blühen?

Elective Affinities (), also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809.

* 1720-Missionary Johann Ernst Gruendler dies in India.