Literature year 1820

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Literature year 1820
Sands End on the Scaffold (Contemporary Colored Engraving)
Karl Ludwig Sand , the murderer of the German playwright August von Kotzebue , is executed.

Events

  • May 20  : Karl Ludwig Sand , the murderer of the German playwright August von Kotzebue , is executed with the sword in front of the Heidelberg Gate in Mannheim. As a result, the Karlovy Vary resolutions with a tightening of the press laws, press censorship and professional bans for liberal and nationally-minded professors.
Sketch by cabin boy Thomas Nickerson on the attack of the sperm whale
  • November 20 : The American whaling ship Essex is sunk by a sperm whale . Of the 21 crew members who can save themselves on three whaling boats, five ultimately survive. Reports of the accident are mainly provided by the diaries and subsequent transcripts of First Mate Owen Chase and the cabin boy Thomas Nickerson . The incident is the historical template for the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville .

prose

Walter Scott
Charles Robert Maturin

Poetry

PB Shelley

drama

Periodicals

Polytechnical Journal 1820 title

Scientific works, essays

Hegel

Translations

Born

January to May

Anne Brontë
Anna Sewell
Herbert Spencer

June to December

Exact date of birth unknown

Died

See also

Portal: Literature  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of literature
Commons : Books 1820  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Newspapers 1820  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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