Literature year 1846

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

prose

February: Typee by Herman Melville appears for the first time under the name Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands .
The last parts of the serialized novel Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ( The Count of Monte Christo ) by Alexandre Dumas , which has been running since 1844, appear in the journal Le Journal des débats .
The epistolary novel Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky is the first time in the almanac Petersburg anthology published and received enthusiastically by critics.
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky appears.
The third work by Dostoyevsky is the story Mr. Prochartschin .
Johann Gottfried Herder's Journal of My Journey in 1769 is published for the first time.

drama

March 13th : The tragedy Maria Magdalena by Friedrich Hebbel is premiered at the Königsberg City Theater. The work is considered the last civil tragedy .

Political works

Sommer: Hermann Püttmann publishes the second volume of the German Citizens Register in Mannheim . Due to repression, the work has to cease publication afterwards.

Born

January 4th : Jan Karafiát , Czech pastor of the Bohemian Evangelical Brother Church and writer († 1929 )
January 5 : Rudolf Eucken , German philosopher and Nobel Prize for Literature († 1926 )
February 21 : Svatopluk Čech , Czech journalist, writer and poet († 1908 )
February 27 : Franz Mehring , German publicist, politician and historian († 1919 )
March 17 : Kate Greenaway , English watercolor painter and illustrator of children's books († 1901 )
March 20 : Augusta Bender , German women's rights activist, writer († 1924 )
March 22nd : Randolph Caldecott , British illustrator († 1886 )
March 25 : Helen Zimmer , English writer († 1934 )
April 4 : Comte de Lautréamont , French poet and writer († 1870 )
April 5 : Michael Georg Conrad , German naturalist writer († 1927 )
April 18 : Wilhelm Fischer , Austrian writer († 1932 )
April 19 : Luis Jorge Fontana , Argentine military, politician, naturalist and writer († 1920 )
April 24 : Marcus Clarke , Australian writer († 1881 )
May 5 : Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish writer and Nobel Prize winner († 1916 )
May 17 : Amand von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld , Austrian traveler, writer and officer († 1910 )
May 25 : Naim Frashëri , Albanian writer († 1900 )
July 11 : Léon Bloy , French writer († 1917 )
July 22nd : Anton Ohorn , German poet and writer († 1924 )
September 2 : Paul Déroulède , French author and politician († 1914 )
October 9 : Holger Drachmann , Danish poet († 1908 )
October 20 : Wilhelm Hübbe Schleiden , German explorer and writer († 1916 )
October 21 : Edmondo De Amicis , Italian author († 1908 )
November 11th : Anna Katharine Rohlfs , American writer († 1935 )
December 14 : Emanuel Friedli , Swiss writer († 1939 )

Died

June 8 : Rodolphe Töpffer , Swiss draftsman and novelist (* 1799 )
August 22nd : Ernst Wilhelm Bernhard Eiselen , German teacher and writer (* 1793 )
September 24th : Friedrich Karl von Vechelde , German lawyer, historian and writer (* 1801 )
November 2 : Esaias Tegnér , Swedish poet (* 1782 )

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