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Very rare pasquinade against an 18th century travel account

[SATIRE - GERMAN].
Der irrende Don Quitschot unsrer zeit, oder Beylage zu den dreyen Sendschreiben des k.k. Rittmeisters, und Auditors bey dem löblichen Dragonner Regimente Savoyen, J. Sulzers über seine litterarische Reise an Herrn Prediger Theodor Lang zu Cronstatt in Siebenbürgen.

Title within ornamental woodcut border, woodcut headpiece.

Title within ornamental woodcut border, woodcut headpiece.



N.pl., n.publ., 1783. Small 8vo. Later plain boards. Title within ornamental woodcut border, woodcut headpiece. 71 pp.

Very rare anonymous pasquinade against Franz Joseph Sulzers' well-known Altes und Neues oder dessen literarische Reise durch Siebenbürgen, den Temesvarer Banat, Ungarn, Oesterreich, Bayern, Schwaben, Schweiz und Elsaß (...) in drei Sendschreiben an Hernn Prediger Theodor Lange (...), published in Vienna in 1782 under monogram F.J.S.
This very critical travel account is the result of a literary journey Franz Joseph Sulzers (1727-1791) made together with his son in the summer of 1782 to Austria, Hungary, Bavaria and the Alsace. During this journey they visited many monasteries and libraries and Sulzers got acquainted with many scholars as Johann Jacob Bodmer, Johann Caspar Lavater, Salomon Gessner, Johann Jacob Hess, the publisher J. Turneisen and Isaak Iselin in Basel. In Freiburg he met the professors Franz Jos. Bopp and Jos. Anton Petzeck, who advised him to try to get the professorship for Statistics at the Hochschule in Vienna. Back in Kronstadt, however, he returned to the army with the rank 'Rittmeister und Auditor im Dragonerregimente Savoyen'.
The author of the pasquinade addresses and criticizes the enlightened Sulzer as the wandering Don Quixote of his time. Only six copies could be traced, the copy of the Berlin State library was destroyed during the war.
The original work by Sulzer was very positively and extensively reviewed in vol. 55 of the contemporary series Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek. But the review of the pasquinade itself, published in vol. 60 (1785) of the same series, is very short and negative: "Nicht so verfahrt der eifrig katholische Ungenannte; seine Schrift is ein wahres Pasquill, das eben so elend gedruckt, als es gedacht und geschrieben ist; weswegen wir uns nicht lange dabey verweilen mögen. (...) Solche fade Gegner wird Hr. S.[ulzer] der ein Mann von unstreitigen Verdiensten ist, mit großmüthigem und Stillschweigen am schärfsten bestrafen können".

Good copy.- (Sl. browned).
Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek, 60 (1785), p. 185; for the original work by Sulzer: Holzmann-Bohatta VI, p. 21, nr. 589.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Germany  Pamphlets  Travel & Voyages 

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