Literature year 1837
Literature year 1837 | ►►
Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
prose
- April 7 : The fairy tale The Princess and the Pea , The Emperor's New Clothes and others of Hans Christian Andersen published in an issue of series Eventyr continued old for Børn ( tale told for children ) in Denmark.
- The American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes Twice-Told Tales , a collection of several previously anonymously published stories. The short prose collection contains, among others, the stories The Gray Champion , The Wedding-Knell , The Minister's Black Veil , Wakefield , The Great Carbuncle and The Hollow of the Three Hills .
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Grimms Märchen , first volume of the third edition ( read )
- A third - again expanded - edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm appears.
- Heinrich Heine publishes Ueber den denunciator. A preface to the third part of the drawing room .
Poetry
- The late romantic poem Mondnacht by Joseph von Eichendorff is published for the first time.
Periodicals
- May 17 : The US daily The Baltimore Sun is founded.
Political works
- November 18 : The professors' group of the Göttingen Seven submit their written protest against the withdrawal of the liberal constitution by their sovereign, King Ernst August I of Hanover . On December 12th, they are released for alleged high treason.
Non-fiction
- The first volume of Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied's Journey into Inner North America from 1832 to 1834 appears with illustrations by Karl Bodmer .
- Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini publishes the first description of the genus Echinopsis as part of the cactus family .
religion
- May 27th : In the encyclical Summo iugiter studio , Pope Gregory XVI. interferes with mixed marriages and insists on the upbringing of the children from this in the Catholic faith.
Born
- February 10 : Harrison Gray Otis , American publisher († 1917 )
- February 15 : Wilhelm Jensen , German writer († 1911 )
- February 21 : Rosalía de Castro , Spanish (Galician) poet († 1885 )
- March 1 : Georg Ebers , German Egyptologist and writer († 1898 )
- April 1 : Jorge Isaacs , Colombian writer and liberal politician († 1895 )
- April 5 : Algernon Swinburne , British writer († 1909 )
- April 18 : Max Jähns , German officer and writer († 1900 )
- April 19 : Hugo Sholto Oskar Georg von Douglas , German writer, entrepreneur and politician († 1912 )
- June 8 : Moritz Heyne , German Germanist and lexicographer († 1906 )
- August 14 : Johannes Trojan , German writer († 1915 )
- August 19 : Heinrich Hansjakob , Baden pastor, politician and local writer († 1916 )
- August 24 : Adolf von Wilbrandt , German writer and director of the Burgtheater in Vienna († 1911 )
- October 27 : Ilia Chavchavadze , Georgian writer and politician († 1907 )
- November 16 : Jean Jacques Boudet , French priest and author († 1915 )
- December 30th : Marie Lipsius , German music writer († 1927 )
- Sırapyon Manas , Armenian theater director, translator, writer and actor
Died
- February 4 : John Latham , British physician, ornithologist, naturalist and author (* 1740 )
- February 10 : Alexander Pushkin , Russian author and poet (* 1799 )
- February 12 : Ludwig Börne , German writer (* 1786 )
Büchner's gravestone on the Germania hill in Zurich
- February 19 : Georg Büchner , German writer (* 1813 )
- February 19 : Thomas Burgess , English author and philosopher (* 1756 )
- May 18 : Hans Christian Lyngbye , Danish pastor, botanist and editor (* 1782 )
- June 14 : Giacomo Leopardi , Italian poet (* 1798 )
- June 18 : Carl Christian Horvath , German bookseller; Founder of the German Booksellers Association (* 1752 )
- November 19 : Carl Theodor Barth , German lawyer and democratic publicist (* 1805 )
- December 25th : Karl Friedrich Reinhard , French diplomat, statesman and writer (* 1761 )
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