Literature year 1858

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Literature year 1858
The Munich Marionette Theater gives its first performance.

Events

prose

• Mary Anne Evans publishes under the male pseudonym George Eliot the three short stories The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton , Mr. Gilfil's Love Story and Janet's Repentance , which appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine last year , under the title Scenes of Clerical Life . She is celebrating her first literary success.
• Thomas Bulfinch published The Age of Chivalry in Boston .

drama

• December 5th : The Munich Marionette Theater gives its first performance with Prince Rosenroth and Princess Lilienweiß or the enchanted Lily . It is considered the oldest stationary stage for puppets in the German-speaking area.

• The French playwright Henri Meilhac wrote the play L'autographe .

Periodicals

• October: The Protestant theologian Carl Grüneisen, the lawyer and art historian Karl Schnaase and the painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld found the Christian Art Journal for Church, School and House , an art magazine for Protestant Christians.

• The author Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer as editor and the publisher and bookseller Eduard Hallberger found the weekly illustrated entertainment paper Über Land und Meer in Stuttgart .
• WO von Horn publishes the monthly Die Maje for the first time .

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  The gazebo 1858

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  Christian art paper

• Ferdinand Goetz takes over the editing of the Deutsche Turnzeitung from Ernst Keil .
• The Bündner Zeitung ceases to appear after 28 years .

Scientific works

• August: Karl Marx begins work on the text On the Critique of Political Economy , which he will finish in January 1859 .
• November: Karl Marx completes the work Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy in London , which is regarded as one of the preparatory work for Das Kapital . The economic writing, in which Marx first developed his theory of value and the theory of surplus value , was not rediscovered and published until 1902 .

• The first edition of the anatomical work Gray's Anatomy by the British doctor Henry Gray appears.
• Friedrich August Quenstedt publishes his standard palaeontological work Der Jura .
• With his book Der rationelle Waldwirth and his silviculture of the highest yield, Max Preßler triggers a forestry debate about the theory of pure soil yield that lasted into the first third of the 20th century .

religion

• May 3 : In the encyclical Amantissimi redemptoris , Pope Pius IX turns . against the development observed in some places that the celebration of Mass is no longer practiced by the priest . The Pope exhorts all priests to dutifully exercise their office.

Born

• January 5 : Gustaf af Geijerstam , Swedish writer († 1909 )
• 7 January : Eliezer Ben-Jehuda , journalist and author of the first modern Hebrew dictionary († 1922 )

• February 11 : Johannes Bolte , German literary scholar, folklorist and narrative researcher († 1937 )
• February 23 : Johann Peter , Austrian writer († 1935 )

• March 6 : Gustav Wied , Danish writer († 1914 )
• March 6 : Jiří Polívka , Czech Slavist, literary scholar and folklorist († 1933 )

• April 3 : Albert Samain , French poet († 1900 )
• April 23 : Ethel Smyth , English composer, conductor, writer and women's rights activist († 1944 )

• May 11 : Carl Hauptmann , German playwright and writer († 1921 )
• May 28 : Heinrich Wolf , German writer († 1942 )

• June 1 : Ernesto Quesada , Argentine sociologist, lawyer, publicist, historian and linguist († 1934 )
• June 25 : Georges Courteline , French writer († 1929 )
• July 15 : Emmeline Pankhurst , British feminist theorist and philosopher († 1928 )

• August 4th : Josef Armin , Austrian comedian, couplet singer and playwright († 1925 )
• August 16 : Arthur Achleitner , German writer († 1927 )
• August 20 : Fritz Skowronnek , German journalist and writer († 1939 )
• September 12 : Fernand Khnopff , Belgian painter, graphic artist, sculptor and art writer († 1921 )

• November 7th : Willibald Hentschel , German writer († 1947 )
• November 13 : Edgar Steiger , Swiss writer († 1919 )

Selma Lagerlöf's birthplace in Mårbacka in Sunne

• November 20 : Selma Lagerlöf , Swedish children's book author († 1940 )
• November 24th : Marie Bashkirtseff , Russian painter, writer and philosopher († 1884 )

Died

• May 3 : Auguste Brizeux , French writer (* 1803 )
• September 5 : Moritz Gottlieb Saphir , Austrian writer, journalist and satirist (* 1795 )
• September 25 : Amalie Schoppe , German writer (* 1791 )

• October 8 : Yanagawa Seigan , Japanese poet (* 1789 )
• October 10 : Karl August Varnhagen von Ense , German chronicler and biographer (* 1785 )
• October 27 : Ida Pfeiffer , Austrian explorer and travel writer (* 1797 )
• November 15 : Johanna Kinkel , German composer and writer (* 1810 )

See also

Portal: Literature  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of literature

Web links

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• Digitized newspapers from 1858 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library
• Austrian newspapers from 1858 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library
• Digitized editions of Le Monde illustré 1858 in Gallica.fr