Literature year 1814
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Events
- January 23 : Joseph Görres takes over the editing of Rheinischer Merkur . In his paper, which appears in Koblenz from 1814 to 1816, Görres leads a passionate campaign against Napoleon and pleads for a liberal, federalist Germany. The magazine is described by Napoleon as the "fifth hostile great power". The Rheinische Merkur is the first German newspaper that was noticed and noticed across Europe.
- Goethe writes the festival Des Epimenides Awakening (premiered in 1815).
Libraries
The city of Mainz issues an ordinance that obliges all publishers and printers in the city to submit mandatory copies of their printed matter to the city library . The ordinance was only partially followed up into the 20th century.
New releases
Fiction
- Adelbert von Chamisso : Peter Schlemihl's wondrous story
- Jane Austen : Mansfield Park appears without naming the author.
- Frances Burney: La Femme errante .
- Lord Byron : The Corsair .
- Lord Byron: Lara , Oriental History.
- Walter Scott : Waverley appears anonymously . The book is considered to be the first English historical novel.
- Robert Southey : Roderick, the Last of the Goths , epic.
Poetry
- Lord Byron : Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte .
Non-fiction
- Ernst Moritz Arndt : Views of German History is published by Rein in Leipzig
- Matthew Flinders : A Voyage to Terra Australis in London.
- The expedition diaries of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark appear under the title History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri, thence Across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean . Lewis and Clark had undertaken a scientific expedition up the St. Lous River over the Rocky Montains to the Pacific on behalf of Thomas Jefferson .
Essays
- Chateaubriand : De Buonaparte et des Bourbons , a pamphlet against Napoleon
- Benjamin Constant : De l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation and Réflexions sur les institutions . Two pamphlets against Napoleon.
Translations
- Christoph Martin Wieland translates Cicero's letters. The translation appears under the title M. Tullius Cicero's Complete Letters, translated and explained by CM Wieland at Macklot Verlag in Stuttgart.
Born
- June 8 : Charles Reade , English novelist and playwright († 1884 )
- August 28 : Sheridan le Fanu , Irish writer of horror novels († 1873 )
- October 15 : Mikhail Lermontow , Russian poet († 1841 )
- November 6 : William Wells Brown , American historian, playwright and novelist († 1884 )
- December 31 : Jules Simon , French philosopher († 1896 )
Date unknown
- Pavlos Kalligas , Greek politician, lawyer and writer († 1896 )
Died
- January 4th : Johann Georg Jacobi , German poet (* 1740 )
- January 29 : Johann Gottlieb Fichte , German philosopher (* 1762 )
- February 27 : Julien Louis Geoffroy , French literary critic (* 1743 )
- June 15 : Charles Palissot de Montenoy , French playwright (* 1730 ).
- July 25 : Charles Dibdin , English playwright and actor (* 1745 )
- September 5 : Gabriel Gottfried Bredow , German historian (* 1773 )
- September 22nd : August Wilhelm Iffland , German actor, theater director and playwright (* 1759 )
- October 4th : Samuel Jackson Pratt , English poet and playwright (* 1749 )
- November 10 : Abbé Aubert , French poet, playwright and journalist (* 1731 )
- December 2 : Marquis de Sade , French author (* 1740 )
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