Literature year 1862

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Literature year 1862
Alice Liddell is the first to hear Lewis Carroll's story of Alice in Wonderland .	Henri Dunant writes A Memory of Solferino at his own expense .
The Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris opens.

Events

prose

German-language literature

• September: Wilhelm Raabe writes the story Eine Grabrede from 1609 , which is published in the same year in WO von Horn's monthly Die Maje at Julius Niedner in Wiesbaden.

• The autobiographical novel Olle Kamellen, part two - Ut mine fortress stid by Fritz Reuter appears, in which he works through his time in fortress detention in the thirties. In the same year, Ut mine Stromtid appears about his time as a volunteer.
• Wilhelm Raabe publishes Unseres Herrgotts Chancellery and The Last Right .
• Friedrich Gerstäcker publishes the travel report Eighteen Months in South America and the work Secret and Eerie Stories , which was created after his trip to South America in 1860/1861 .

English-language literature

• July 4th : On a boat trip on the Thames, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson tells the sisters Alice, Edith and Lorina Liddell a story that would later become world famous as Alice in Wonderland .
• August: British theologian and writer Charles Kingsley begins publishing his children's story The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby in sequels in Macmillan's Magazine .

• The British Mary Elizabeth Braddon publishes her most famous novel Lady Audley's Secret .

French-language literature

Depiction of “Cosette” by Émile Bayard , from the original edition of Les Misérables

• April 3 / May 15 : Victor Hugo publishes the monumental novel Les Misérables in five volumes. The criticism is divided, but the work becomes a financial success.

The first page

• The Swiss humanist Henri Dunant publishes a memory of Solferino ( Un souvenir de Solférino ) in French at his own expense and sends it to leading figures from politics and the military. Within a few years it was translated into eleven languages.

Through the author Alfred de Bréhat , the budding French writer Jules Verne met the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in autumn and presented him with two of his manuscripts. Hetzel rejected the draft for a trip with obstacles to England and Scotland , written in 1859/60 . Hetzel asked for some changes to be made to the second manuscript, Un Voyage en l'air , written in 1862 .

At the end of the year the novel Salambo by Gustave Flaubert will be published . The work, which combines historical events with fictional characters, depicts the mercenary revolt that broke out after the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War . The material impresses the contemporary audience and inspires Modest Mussorgsky , among others, to write an opera of the same name , which, however, is never completed.

Russian-language literature

• From January to the end of the year, the last parts of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky's prose work, Notes from the House of the Dead and the short story A Stupid Story, appear in the magazine Vremja, which he and his brother Michail had published since the previous year . Wremja is so successful with the audience that Dostoevsky can go on an extensive trip through Europe in the summer.

• The novel Fathers and Sons ( Отцы и дети ) by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev is published.

Poetry

February 1862 issue of The Atlantic Monthly

• February 11 : In The Atlantic Monthly , Julia Ward Howe publishes the poem The Battle Hymn of the Republic , which she wrote as a new verse on the popular abolitionist march John Brown's Body after visiting a military camp of the Northern States .
• Autumn: Pavlo Tschubynskyj written the poem Shche ne vmerla Ukrajina ( Still, the Ukraine did not die ), now the text of the Ukrainian national anthem . As early as November 20 , he was relocated to Arkhangelsk under police supervision .

drama

Johann Nepomuk Nestroy

• January 7th : Former circumstances , a farce with singing in one act by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy with music by Anton M. Storch is premiered at the Quai-Theater in Vienna .
• February 1st : The world premiere of the “Indian carnival burlesque” Chief Abendwind or The Greyish Feast by Johann Nestroy with music by Jacques Offenbach takes place at the Quai-Theater in Vienna. It is the last play written by Nestroy, on May 25th he died at the age of 60 in Graz. His last role is the parade role of Knieriem in The Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus .
• April 19 : The Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, built by Gabriel Davioud on behalf of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann on the Place du Châtelet , is presented by Adolphe d'Ennery , Louis François Clairville and Henri Monnier in the presence of the Empress Eugénie with a performance of Rothomago opened. In the same year, the Théâtre de la Ville , also built by Davioud, opens on the same square opposite .
• August 2nd : Datterich , a Darmstätter local posse in Hessian dialect by Ernst Elias Niebergall , is premiered in Bessingen almost 20 years after the author's death.

Title page of: I had myself shaved (1862)

• Carl Künzel brings out Friedrich Schiller's only comedy under the title I let myself be shaved . This was not published during the author's lifetime.
• Friedrich Theodor Vischer writes the satirical play Faust. The third part of the tragedy .
• The French playwright Henri Meilhac wrote the play Les moulins à vent .

Periodicals

• Julius Stettenheim founds the satirical magazine Hamburger Wespen in Hamburg .
• Ernst Keil becomes the editor of Die Gartenlaube in place of Ferdinand Stolle .
• Ernst Rauscher succeeds Simon Martin Mayer as editor-in-chief of Carinthia magazine .

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  The gazebo 1862

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  Cornhill Magazine , January 1862

Scientific literature

history

• The British historian Charles Merivale publishes the seventh and final volume of his major work A History of the Romans under the Empire .
• Juana Manso de Noronha publishes a Compendio de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata for history lessons in Argentina , the first compendium in Argentine history .
• The historian Hermann Meynert publishes the historical work Kaiser Joseph II.

linguistics

The Landa alphabet

• Diego de Landa's justification Relación de las cosas de Yucatán for the destruction of the Maya codices from 1566 is rediscovered by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg in Madrid. The so-called Landa alphabet contained therein plays a decisive role in the deciphering of the Maya script around 100 years later.
• Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg publishes a grammar of the Quiché language , a Maya language in Guatemala.

Musicology

• Ludwig von Köchel publishes a catalog raisonné of the compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . The first edition of the work later known as the Köchelverzeichnis bears the title Chronological-Thematic Directory of all Tonwerke Wolfgang Amade Mozart. In addition to an indication of the lost, started, transferred, dubious and superseded compositions of the same .

Scientific works

• November 10 : Inspired by Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species , the British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley begins his six-part lecture series on our knowledge of the causes of phenomena in organic nature at the Geological Museum in London's Jermyn Street . The lectures are stenographed with permission to be presented and sold by the London publisher Robert Hardwicke as booklets at a price of four pence. On December 2, Huxley sends the first three lecture notes to Darwin, who reads them “with interest”.

• Ernst Haeckel wrote a marine biological monograph on radiolarians .

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  The radiolarians (Rhizopoda radiata)

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  Radiolarians, panel 01

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  Radiolarians, plate 19

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  Radiolarians, plate 35

• The first description of the consecration of Réunion by the French ornithologist Jules Verreaux is published in Louis Maillard's Notes sur l'Île de la Réunion (Bourbon) .
• Carl August Bolle , who visited the Canary Islands and Cape Verde between 1852 and 1856, wrote the first description of the Canary Beeper .
• The German ornithologist Jean Louis Cabanis wrote the first description of the Hoffmann woodpecker and the red cap woodpecker .
• Shortly before his death, the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot published the work Études sur l'astronomie indienne et sur l'astronomie chinoise .

Travel literature

• The Bibliographical Institute publishes The Latest Travel Guide for Switzerland , the first volume of Meyer's travel books , edited by Joseph Meyer .
• In Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen , Karl Moritz von Beurmann's travel report appears about his travels through Africa in 1859/60.
• Theodor Fontane publishes the first volume of the walks through the Mark Brandenburg .

Other works

• January: Karl Marx begins work in London on an extensive economic manuscript, which after his death is summarized in the work Theories of Added Value .

• Karl Heinrich Ulrichs first referred to himself as " Urning " in letters to his relatives .
• John Ruskin publishes the socially critical work Unto This Last .

religion

• April 8th : With the encyclical Amantissimus Pope Pius IX. to the bishops of the Eastern Church and urges their unity with the Catholic Church.

Other events

• July 1 : The Russian State Library is founded as Moscow's first free and public library under the name Library of the Moscow Public Museum and the Rumyantsev Museum or Rumyantsev Library in Pashkov House for short .

Sofia and Leo 1862

• September 23 : Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy marries Sofja Andrejewna Behrs . A little later he begins writing his epic novel War and Peace .

• Samuel Clemens , who originally came to the Nevada Territory to dig for gold and silver, begins working as a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City . He reports from the saloons of the gold rush town and brings gossip stories that are sometimes on the verge of slander. With his well-decorated reports, he has a share in the myth that is developing around the “ Wild West ”.

Born

January to March

• 0January 8 : Frank Nelson Doubleday , American publisher († 1934 )
• January 11 : Max Mendheim , German writer, poet, editor and critic († 1939 )
• January 21 : Julius Levin , German physician, writer and violin maker of Jewish descent († 1935 )
• January 21 : Ewald Müller , German teacher, local poet and local researcher († 1932 )
• January 24th : Edith Wharton , American novelist († 1937 )

• 0February 4 : Édouard Estaunié , French writer († 1942 )
• 0February 5 : Oskar Herrfurth , German painter and illustrator († 1934 )
• February 11 : Josef Krempl , Austrian dialect poet and editor († 1914 )
• February 17 : Eduard Bornhöhe , Estonian writer († 1923 )
• February 17 : Mori Ōgai , Japanese doctor, novelist and translator († 1922 )
• February 18 : Otto Jürgens , German archivist and librarian († 1929 )
• February 27 : Sophie Countess Hartig , Austrian writer († 1937 )
• February 28 : Rudolf Huch , German lawyer and writer († 1943 )

• 0March 3 : Smbat Biurat , Armenian writer († 1915 )
• 0March 4 : Norman Gale , English poet († 1942 )
• March 13 : Wilhelm Weigand , German poet and writer († 1949 )
• March 14 : Emil Beurmann , Swiss writer, poet, draftsman and painter († 1951 )
• March 16 : Ruben Brainin , Hebrew and Yiddish writer and literary critic in Russia († 1939 )
• March 23 : Gabriela Preissová , Czech writer and dramaturge († 1946 )
• March 26 : Sophie Jansen , German writer and poor relief worker († 1942 )
• March 30 : Wilhelm Bode , German teacher and writer († 1922 )

April to June

• 0April 2 : Nicholas Murray Butler , American philosopher and publicist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate († 1947 )
• 0April 4 : Wilhelm Altmann , German music historian and librarian († 1951 )
• 0April 4 : Max Crone , German theologian and writer († 1939 )
• 0April 9 : Teuvo Pakkala , Finnish writer († 1925 )
• April 11 : Richard Austin Freeman , British detective writer († 1943 )
• April 24 : Arthur Christopher Benson , British essayist, poet and writer († 1925 )
• April 25 : Friedrich Austerlitz , Austrian journalist and politician († 1931 )
• April 29 : Joseph Alexander Altsheler , American author († 1919 )

• 0May 1 : Marcel Prévost , French novelist and playwright († 1941 )
• May 10 : Walter de Gruyter , German businessman and publisher († 1923 )
• May 11 : Jan Jakubec , Czech historian, literary historian and critic († 1936 )
• May 13 : Janko Veselinović , Serbian writer († 1905 )
• May 15 : Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian storyteller and playwright († 1931 )
• May 18 : Josephus Daniels , American publisher and politician († 1948 )
• May 24 : Samuel Löb Zitron , Russian Jewish Zionist writer († 1930 )
• May 27 : John Kendrick Bangs , American writer, humorist and satirist († 1922 )
• May 30 : Franz Held , German anarchist poet, playwright and prose writer († 1908 )
• May 30 : Eduard Heyck , German cultural historian, editor, writer and poet († 1941 )

• 0June 5 : Hermann Keussen , German historian, author and archivist in Cologne († 1943 )
• 0June 6 : Adolf Frankl , Austrian writer and teacher († 1958 )
• June 12 : Wilhelm Meyer-Förster , German writer († 1934 )
• June 15 : Frantz Funck-Brentano , French writer, historian and playwright († 1947 )
• June 21 : Johannes Schlaf , German playwright, narrator and translator († 1941 )

July to September

• 0July 8th : Lina Sommer , Palatine dialect poet († 1932 )
• 0July 9 : Konrad Alberti , German writer, biographer, literary historian and editor-in-chief of the Berliner Morgenpost († 1918 )

Hermann Conradi's birthplace in Jeßnitz

• July 12 : Hermann Conradi , German writer († 1890 )
• July 12 / August 12 : Richard Skowronnek , German journalist and writer († 1932 )
• July 15 : Ludwig Fulda , German philosopher, philosopher and author († 1939 )
• July 16 : Ida B. Wells , American journalist, civil and women's rights activist († 1931 )
• July 17 : Oscar Levertin , Swedish writer († 1906 )
• July 17 : Franz Servaes , German journalist, critic and writer († 1947 )
• July 23 : Ernst Seraphim , German-Baltic historian, teacher and journalist († 1945 )
• July 31 : Felicitas Rose , German writer († 1938 )

• 0August 1 : Montague Rhodes James , English horror and fantasy author († 1936 )
• 0August 2 : Duncan Campbell Scott , Canadian poet and narrator († 1947 )
• 0August 7 : Jakob Bosshart , Swiss writer († 1924 )
• August 19 : Maurice Barrès , French novelist, journalist and politician († 1923 )
• August 23 : Jan Kotrč , Czech chess player, chess composer and publicist († 1943 )
• August 21 : Emilio Salgari , Italian writer († 1911 )
• August 24 : Constantin Nörrenberg , German librarian and Germanist († 1937 )
• August 27 : Arjeh Yehuda Wertheimer , German-Jewish philosopher, writer, literary critic and agent († 1937 )
• August 29 : Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian writer and Nobel Prize winner († 1949 )

• 0September 2 : Alphons Diepenbrock , Dutch writer, composer and classical philologist († 1921 )
• 0September 2 : Ernst Hamann , German teacher and local poet († 1952 )
• 0September 5 : August Sperl , German archivist, historian and writer († 1926 )
• 0September 6 : Sergei Alexandrovich Nilus , Russian religious and anti-Semitic writer († 1929 )
• 0September 7th : Ernst von Dombrowski , Bohemian hunter and writer († 1917 )
• September 11 : William Sydney Porter , American writer († 1910 )
• September 16 : Victor Laverrenz , German bookseller, publisher and writer († 1910 )
• September 19 : Augustin Wibbelt , Low German author and theologian († 1947 )
• September 24 : Leonard Leslie Brooke , British draftsman, painter and author († 1940 )
• September 25 : Max Dreyer , German writer and playwright († 1946 )
• September 28 : Violet Hunt , British writer († 1942 )

October to December

• 0October 4 : Edward Stratemeyer , American publicist and children's book writer († 1930 )
• 0October 7 : Otto Ernst , German writer († 1926 )
• October 10 : Henni Lehmann , German artist and author († 1937 )
• October 10 : Ada Leverson , British writer († 1933 )
• October 12 : Ferdinand Pfohl , German music critic, writer and composer († 1949 )
• October 13 : Mary Kingsley , English ethnologist and travel writer († 1900 )
• October 17 : Konrad Nies , German-American poet, actor and teacher († 1922 )
• October 23 : Léon Durocher , French chansonnier, writer, journalist and Breton bard († 1918 )
• October 27 : Lita zu Putlitz , German writer († 1935 )
• October 27 : Hubert Gordon Schauer , German-Czech publicist and literary critic († 1892 )
• October 30 : Anton Funtek , Slovenian writer († 1932 )

Birth house of Maironis (Jonas Mačiulis)

• 0November 2 : Jonas Mačiulis , Lithuanian national poet († 1932 )
• 0November 4 : Eden Phillpotts , British writer († 1960 )
• November 15 : Adolf Bartels , German writer and literary historian († 1945 )

Hauptmann's birthplace in Szczawno Zdrój

• November 15 : Gerhart Hauptmann , German naturalist writer († 1946 )
• November 16 : Jacques Rouché , French editor and opera director († 1957 )
• November 19 : Alfred Oehlke , German journalist and newspaper publisher († 1932 )
• November 20 : Georges Palante , French philosopher, anarchist and author († 1925 )
• November 23 : Friedrich Thieme , German journalist and writer († 1945 )
• November 26 : Hans Gabriel Jentzsch , German graphic artist, illustrator, caricaturist († 1930 )

• 0December 3 : Karl Trotsche , German farmer and writer († 1920 )
• 0December 5 : Oswald Bergener , German writer († 1945 )
• 0December 6 : Paul Adam , French writer († 1920 )
• 0December 8 : Georges Feydeau , French playwright († 1921 )
• December 16 : John Fox Jr. , American journalist and writer of novels and short stories († 1919 )
• December 21 : Ernst von Eisenhart-Rothe , German general and military writer († 1947 )
• December 26 : Karl Eduard Sööt , Estonian poet († 1950 )
• December 28 : Morris Rosenfeld , American poet († 1923 )
• December 30th : Josef Ditzen , German newspaper publisher († 1931 )
• December 31 : Paula Dehmel , German poet and writer († 1918 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• William Gordon Burn-Murdoch , Scottish painter, lithographer, sculptor and travel writer († 1939 )
• Is'hoqxon Ibrat , Uzbek writer († around 1937)
• Diran Kelekian , Turkish journalist and scholar († 1915 )
• Edhem Mulabdić , Bosnian writer († 1954 )
• Mary Proctor , American astronomer and writer († 1957 )

Died

January to April

• January 4 : Josef Messner , Bohemian writer and poet (* 1822 )

Němcovás grave in the Slavín Memorial Cemetery near the Vyšehrad Castle

• January 21 : Božena Němcová , Bohemian-Czech writer (* 1820 )
• January 24th : Heinrich von Levitschnigg , Austrian writer and journalist (* 1810 )
• January 29 : Johann Baptist Friedreich , German physician and poet (* 1796 )

Ignaz Franz Castelli

• February 5 : Ignaz Franz Castelli , Austrian poet and playwright (* 1781 )
• February 7th : Francisco Martínez de la Rosa , Spanish poet, playwright, politician, diplomat and government president of Spain (* 1787 )
• February 11 : Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal , British painter and poet (* 1829 )
• February 13 : Leopold Schefer , German poet and composer (* 1784 )
• February 13 : Amalie Struve , German radical democratic revolutionary of the March Revolution, women's rights activist and writer (* 1824 )
• February 20 : Francisco Balagtas , Filipino poet, writer and one of the most important authors of the Tagalog (* 1788 )
• February 21 : Justinus Kerner , German writer and doctor (* 1786 )
• February 21 : Johann Gottfried Kumpf , Austrian doctor and publicist (* 1781 )
• February 24 : Franz Jakob Clemens , German philosopher and writer (* 1815 )
• February 24 : Bernhard Severin Ingemann , Danish writer (* 1789 )
• February 26 : Cornelius Conway Felton , American literary scholar (* 1807 )

Ivan Ivanovich Panayev

• March 2 : Iwan Iwanowitsch Panajew , Russian writer, journalist, literary critic and editor (* 1812 )
• March 8 : Ferdinand von Biedenfeld , German poet, dramaturist and publicist (* 1788 )
• March 12 : Gustave Vaëz , Belgian playwright, librettist and translator (* 1812 )
• March 16 : Joseph Christian von Zedlitz , Austrian officer and poet (* 1790 )

• April 4 : Harmen Sytses Sytstra , West Frisian poet (* 1817 )
• April 6 : Fitz-James O'Brien , Irish writer (* 1828 )
• April 17th : Theodor von Hallberg-Broich , German writer and explorer (* 1768 )
• April 28 : Wilhelm Nienstädt , Prussian prince educator and writer (* 1784 )

May to August

• May 6 : Henry David Thoreau , American writer and philosopher (* 1817 )
• May 11 : Niels Matthias Petersen , Danish linguist, literary scholar and historian (* 1791 )
• May 14 : Joseph Brodtmann , Swiss and German draftsman, graphic artist, lithographer, publicist and bookseller (* 1787 )
• May 16 : Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini , Italian historian and journalist (* 1799 )
• May 25 : Johann Nestroy , Austrian playwright and satirist (* 1801 )
• May 28 : Lev Alexandrovich Mei , Russian poet (* 1822 )
• May 30 : Jan Gerrit Hulleman , Dutch literary scholar (* 1815 )

• June 10 : Franz Wilhelm August Göler von Ravensburg , Baden officer and military writer (* 1809 )

Resting place of Fanny von Tarnow, ( new burial place in Dessau )

• June 20 : Fanny Tarnow , German writer (* 1779 )
• July 15 : Henriette Hanke , German late Romantic writer (* 1785 )

• August 20 : Ernst Guhl , German etcher, art writer and university lecturer (* 1819 )
• August 20 : Nikolaus Heinrich Julius , German doctor and writer (* 1783 )
• August 21 : Carl Heymann , German-Jewish publisher (* 1793 )
• August 23 : Julius Hammer , German poet and writer, co-founder of the German Schiller Foundation (* 1810 )
• August 27 : Thomas Jefferson Hogg , British lawyer and writer (* 1792 )

September to December

• September 15 : Władysław Syrokomla , Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, translator and poet of the Polish language in the Russian Empire (* 1823 )
• September 24th : Anton Martin Slomšek , Slovenian clergyman, writer and poet (* 1800 )

• October 6 : Francisco Acuña de Figueroa , Uruguayan writer (* 1791 )
• November 7th : Bahadur Shah II , last Indian Grand Mughal and poet in the Urdu language (* 1775 )
• November 12th : Christian Gottlob Barth , German Protestant pastor, Pietist, writer and publisher (* 1799 )

Ludwig Uhland is buried in the Tübingen city cemetery

• November 13 : Ludwig Uhland , German lawyer, poet and politician (* 1787 )
• November 15 : Johann Karl Christoph Vogel , German theologian, pedagogue and lexicographer (* 1795 )
• November 30th : James Sheridan Knowles , Irish actor and dramatic poet (* 1784 )

• December 1 : Agustín Durán , Spanish literary scholar (* 1789 )
• December 14 : Heinrich Döring , German writer, translator, theologian and mineralogist (* 1789 )
• December 16 : Ewald Rudolf Stier , German Lutheran theologian and hymn poet (* 1800 )
• December 25th : Adolph Kullak , German pianist and music writer (* 1823 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Bonaventura Carles Aribau , Catalan writer, poet and economist (* 1798 )

See also

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

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• Digitized newspapers from 1862 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library
• Austrian newspapers from 1862 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library
• Digitized editions of Le Monde illustré 1862 in Gallica.fr