Literature year 1824

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Literature year 1824
The Lorelei as the cover picture of a Cologne songbook
Title page to Forberg's De figuris Veneris by Édouard-Henri Avril
Page from Champollions Précis du système hiéroglyphique
Précis du système hiéroglyphique , title page, 1824

Events

The manuscript of the De Doctrina Christiana of John Milton is found in a London State Archives. Two years later, a bilingual edition, Latin and English, was published under the title A treatise on Christian doctrine compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone .

New releases

Periodicals

  • January 24th : The Westminster Revue , organ of the Philosophical Radicals , a wing of the Liberal Party , appears for the first time in London. The newspaper's founder is the social reformer Jeremy Bentham , and the philosopher and economist James Mill , father of John Stuart Mill , who also wrote for the magazine , played a key role in the political orientation of the quarterly . The Westminister Review ceased publication in 1914.
  • The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences are published by the New York science publisher Wiley-Blackwell. The annals are still published today by the New York Academy of Sciences , making them one of the oldest still existing organs of an academy of sciences worldwide.
  • The Mercure du XIXe siècle , a French literary magazine, is published in Paris by the poet and writer Henri de Latouche . The paper takes an explicit position against Romanticism and uses the term realism for the first time in relation to literature . The paper stopped appearing just two years later.
Antoine Galland
Mary Shelley
Sir Walter Scott
Alphonse de Lamartine
Alfred de Vigny

Fiction

  • Honoré de Balzac publishes the novel Le Centenaire ou les Deux Beringheld under the pseudonym d'Horace de Saint-Aubin, bachelier es-lettres and the novel Annette et le criminel under the pseudonym Horace de Saint-Aubin
  • Friedrich Karl Forberg : De figuris Veneris (Antonii Panormitae Hermaphroditus) . Forberg published a collection of obscene and satirical epigrams in Coburg in 1824 with the title "Hermaphroditus" by the Italian Renaissance author Antonio Beccadelli and added his text "De Figuris Veneris" for understanding. This manual of classical erotology, written in Latin, gathers and classifies ancient as well as early modern text passages, which in their entirety realistically describe the diversity of sexual behavior.
  • James Hoggs The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner appears anonymously
  • James McHenry: The Wilderness , historical novel
  • Walter Scott : Redgauntlet ; Peveril of the Peak , Quentin Durward , novels

drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

  • Jean-François Champollion : Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Egyptiens
  • Robert Watts Bibliotheca Britannica Or General Index to British and Foreign Literature is published posthumously by Constable in Edinburgh. The first two volumes list over 40,000 authors alphabetically, the other two volumes contain a subject index.
  • November 17th : Mizzimadetha Ayedawbon a chronicle of the Kingdom of Burma until 1785 written by Ne Myo Zeya Kyawhtin is printed in Burma. The chronicle covers the period from 1795 to 1811.

Translations

In 1824 and 1825 the J. Max & Comp publishing house in Breslau published an eight-volume translation of Thousand and One Nights - supposedly based on a Tunisian manuscript - from the French version by Galland, translated into German by Maximilian Habicht , Fr. H. von der Hagen and Karl Schall , with title vignettes by Moritz von Schwind and an Arabic title page. This translation saw several new editions in the course of the 19th century.

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