From 1743 to 1748, he was the deputy headmaster of the gymnasium of Seehausen in the Altmark but Winckelmann felt that work with children was not his true calling.

The archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Stendal worked there between 1748 and 1754 as secretary.

In 1748, Alexander Sumarokov wrote a Russian adaptation that focused on Prince Hamlet as the embodiment of an opposition to Claudius's tyranny — a treatment that would recur in Eastern European versions into the 20th century.

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ( 1748 – 1831 ) spent ten years studying North American birds and wrote the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l ' Amerique septentrionale ( 1807-1808 ?).

During the 1748 Siege of Pondicherry Clive distinguished himself in successfully defending a trench against a French sortie: one witness of the action wrote " platoon, animated by his exhortation, fired again with new courage and great vivacity upon the enemy.

It was while he was in prison that Cleland wrote Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, which was published in two installments, in November 1748 and February 1749.

The best known is the hymn entitled “ Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur .” Gellert wrote a few sentimental comedies: Die Betschwester ( The Praying Sister, 1745 ), Die kranke Frau ( The Sick Woman, 1747 ), Das Los in der Lotterie ( 1748 ), and Die zärtlichen Schwestern ( The Affectionate Sisters, 1747 ), the last of which was much admired.

From 1748 to 1753 he wrote a succession of tragedies ( Denys le Tyran ( 1748 ); Aristomene ( 1749 ); Cleopâtre ( 1750 ); Heraclides ( 1752 ); Egyptus ( 1753 )), which, though only moderately successful on the stage, secured Marmontel's introduction into literary and fashionable circles.

Euler wrote about this identity in a letter dated May 4, 1748 to Goldbach ( but he used a different sign convention from the above ).

James Thomson ( 1700 – 1748 ) who wrote " Rule Britannia " was born nearby, and educated in the town.

* Joseph Lees ( 1748 – 1824 )-regional dialect poet from Glodwick, who wrote Jone o Grinfilt.

Yet the tradition of writing in Andorra dates farther back than the 20th century ; Antoni Fiter i Rossell, from the parish of Ordino, wrote a history book of his lands called Digest manual de las valls neutras de Andorra in 1748, describing the feudal historical and legal setting of Andorra.

Robinson Crusoe author, Daniel Defoe wrote in his 1748 travel guide that:

There La Mettrie wrote the Discours sur le bonheur ( 1748 ), which appalled leading Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Diderot and D ' Holbach due to its explicitly hedonistic sensualist principles which prioritised the unbridled pursuit of pleasure above all other things.

Samuel Wyttenbach ( 1748 – 1830 ), Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner and Johann Georg Altmann ( 1697 – 1758 ) all wrote descriptions of the countryside in a combination of literary and scientific styles.

He wrote various papers for the Royal Society of London, of which he became a Fellow in November 1763, devised astronomical and mechanical models, and in 1748 began to give public lectures on experimental philosophy.

He wrote the following and more: The Adventures of Roderick Random ( 1748 ), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ), The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom ( 1753 ), The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves ( 1762 ), The History and Adventures of an Atom ( 1769 ), and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ).

Webster published in 1748 his Calculations, setting forth the principles on which his scheme for widows ' pensions was based ; he also wrote a defence of the Methodist movement in 1742, and Zeal for the Civil and Religious Interests of Mankind Commended ( 1754 ).

He also wrote six novels, the best known of which is Thérèse Philosophe ( 1748 ).

** Jean-Dominique de Cassini ( 1748 – 1845 ), first Count Cassini, French astronomer and cartographer, son of César-François

In 1748 he accompanied August Heinrich, Count Friesen, to Paris as secretary, and he is said by Rousseau to have acted for some time as reader to Frederick, the young hereditary prince of Saxe-Gotha.

To counter these threats, Friedrich's grandson Count Wilhelm ( who reigned 1748 – 1777 ) retained a standing army of up to 1000 troops-quite a lot for such a small territory.

* Christian Ditlev Frederik, Count Reventlow ( 1748 – 1827 )

She married, firstly on November 19, 1748 as his third wife Hetman Count Jan Klemens ( Jan Kazimierz ) Branicki in 1756, and secondly, Andrzej Mokronowski, wojewoda mazowiecki, without issue.

Christian, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg ( October 15, 1748 – January 18, 1821 ) poet, brother of Frederick Leopold, also a poet.

Vincent de Bourbon, great grandson of Louis XIV, was Count of Guingamp from 1748 till his death in 1755.

* Henrique José de Carvalho e Melo ( 1748 – 1812 ), 2nd Count of Oeiras and 2nd Marquess of Pombal.

One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire ( 1748 ) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove her that his teaching is better than her mother's Christianity.

* The Vampire by Heinrich August Ossenfelder ( 1748 ).

Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty ( December 21, 1748 – September 1, 1776 ) was a German poet, known especially for his ballads.

** Carl Hermann Heinrich Benda ( 1748 – 1836 ), violinist, composer, and son of František

* 1677 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1748 )

* August 27 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1748 )

During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint-Pierre and Carl von Gontard, numerous courtly buildings and attractions were created: the Margravial Opera House with its richly furnished baroque theatre ( 1744 – 1748 ), the New ' Castle ' and Sun Temple ( 1749 – 1753 ) at the Hermitage, the New Palace with its courtyard garden ( 1754 ff ) to replace the Old Palace which had burned down through the carelessness of the margrave, and the magnificent row of buildings in today's Friedrichstraße.

A son of Lieutenant-General Hans Reinhold von Fersen, he entered the Swedish Life Guards in 1740, and from 1743 to 1748 was in the French service in the Royal-Suedois, where he rose to the rank of brigadier.

* Axel von Löwen ( 1748 – 1767 )

* Johann Lorenz von Mosheim " Geschichte des Apostel-Ordens in dreien Büchern " in " Versuch eines unparteischen und gründlichen Ketzergeschichte ", Helmstaedt 1748.

* June 20 – Theodor von Schacht, German composer ( b. 1748 )

Ewald Georg ( or Jürgen das Opfa ) von Kleist ( 10 June 1700 – December 11, 1748 ) was a German jurist, Lutheran cleric, and physicist.

Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun ( or sometimes Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun ), ( August 27, 1677 – February 18, 1748 ) was an Austrian Generalfeldmarschall.

In May 1748 he was appointed by the archbishop-elector Francis George von Schönborn as his auxiliary bishop, being consecrated at Mainz, in February 1749, under the title of bishop of Myriophiri in partibus.

He had two other sons, who died young, unmarried and without issue, Franciszek Poniatowski ( 1723-1749 / 1759 ), canon and provost in the Cathedral of Kraków ( kanonik i proboszcz katedralny krakowski ), chancellor of Gniezno in 1748, and Aleksander Poniatowski ( 1725-killed in action on June 29, 1744 ), adiutant of Karl von Lothringen, and two daughters, Ludwika Maria Poniatowska and Izabella Poniatowska.

* Johann Lorenz von Mosheim " Geschichte des Apostel-Ordens in dreien Büchern " in " Versuch eines unparteischen und gründlichen Ketzergeschichte ", Helmstaedt 1748.

His father was Karl Cornelius Giers ( born about 1748, died 1818 in Grodno ), and his children started to use the name ' de Giers ' or ' von Giers '.

His father was Karl Cornelius von Giers ( 1748, 1818 ) mentioned in 2-2 above.

de: Frieden von Aachen ( 1748 )

* Ewald Georg von Kleist ( 1700 – 1748 ), physician

* Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun ( 1677 – 1748 )

The principal writers in the Romonsch dialect, generally the less literary of the two, in the 19th century are Theodor von Castelberg ( 1748 – 1830 ), a poet and translator of poetry, and P. A. de Latour ( about 1811 ) also a poet, while the best of all poets in this dialect was Anton Huonder, whose lyrics are considered remarkable.

He was born in Prague, Prague 2 March 1728, and died at Donaueschingen 2 June 1783 ; he married 21 July 1748 to the Countess ( Gräfin ) Maria Josepha von Waldburg und Trauchburg ( 30 March 1731 7 May 1782 ).

* Johann Lorenz von Mosheim " Geschichte des Apostel-Ordens in dreien Büchern " in Versuch eines unparteischen und gründlichen Ketzergeschichte, Helmstaedt 1748.