Literature year 1864

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Literature year 1864
The French writer Jules Verne publishes the novel Voyage au center de la terre .

Cover of the original 1864 manuscript of Alice

Events

prose

Dostoevsky 1863

• Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski's novel Aufzüge aus dem Kellerloch appears in the magazine Epocha , which his brother Michail will publish from March .

• April: Jules Verne's essay Edgard Poe et ses œuvres is published .

• October-December: The short story Le Comte de Chanteleine of Jules Verne is in the magazine Musée des Familles published.
• November 25 : Jules Verne's second novel The Journey to the Center of the Earth is published for the first time by the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel under the title Voyage au center de la terre .

Page of the original manuscript

• November 26 : Lewis Carroll hands Alice Liddell the handwritten manuscript Alice Under Ground .

• Jonas Breitenstein publishes S'Vreneli us der Bluemmatt. An idyll from the Basel area in the Alemannic dialect .

Poetry

• December 3 : Theodor Fontane performs the ballad Gorm Grymme for the first time as part of a competition at the foundation festival of the tunnel over the Spree .
• Alfred Tennyson publishes the ballad Enoch Arden . The verse epic spread rapidly and became a tremendous success.

drama

• April 30 : The play David Garrick by Thomas William Robertson has successfully premiered at the Haymarket Theater in London.

• Aleksis Kivi's peasant comedy Nummisuutarit ( Die Heideschuster ) is out in print. It is one of the classic works of Finnish literature .

Picture stories

Cover picture of Krischan with the beeper

Image from Diogenes and the Bad Boys of Corinth

• Wilhelm Busch publishes the early work Bilderpossen . This contains four larger stories: Cat and Mouse , Hansel and Gretel , Krischan with the Piepe and The Ice Peter . The work becomes a failure. In the same year Busch also published the stories Diogenes and the bad boys of Corinth and Eginhard and Emma in the Fliegende Blätter .

Periodicals

Settings

• June: The literary magazine Southern Literary Messenger, founded in Virginia in 1834 , to which Edgar Allan Poe, among others, was a major contributor, ceases to appear due to the American Civil War.

New releases

• January 26th : The East Frisian News appears for the first time in Aurich and the surrounding area .
• November 13 : The conservative daily Die Debatte appears for the first time in Vienna.
• December 15 : The Social Democrat appears for the first time as an organ of the General German Workers' Association .
• December 23 : The first edition of the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter , founded by Rudolf Wall with the support of the publisher Albert Bonnier , appears.
• December 29th : The Portuguese daily Diário de Notícias , founded by Eduardo Coelho , appears for the first time in Lisbon.

• The Göttinger Zeitung is founded.
• Jules Verne's publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel publishes the youth magazine Magazin illustré d'éducation et de récréation for the first time in Paris .

The Gazebo 1864

• The style gazebo modeled after Christian conservative weekly magazine at home: a German family sheet with illustrations , first appears.
• The Photographische Gesellschaft in Vienna publishes for the first time the monthly magazine Photographische Correspondenz , Technische artistic and commerzielle Mittheilen, founded by Josef Maria Eder , among others . The first editor-in-chief is Ludwig Wardrobe .
• The first edition of the Zeitschrift für deutsches Seewesen appears, a monthly, technically oriented trade journal on all areas of the maritime industry, shipbuilding, ship technology and the topic of ports.
• The Neue Berliner Schachzeitung appears as a competitor to Max Lange's chess newspaper, which moved to Leipzig in 1860 , after Gustav Richard Neumann convinced the Berlin publisher Julius Springer that the Prussian capital should not remain without a chess magazine. The editors are initially Neumann and Adolf Anderssen .
• The Old Prussian Monthly Magazine appears in Königsberg as a magazine of the Association for the History of the Province of Prussia and the Royal German Society of Königsberg .
• Anton von Tröltsch , Hermann Schwartze and Adam Politzer found the first otological specialist journal Archiv für Ohrheilkunde in Vienna .
• The Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift , organ for general practitioners , is founded.

Change of publisher

“Naked again this year ... always naked” ,
caricature from Le Charivari 1864

• Louis Adrien Huart takes over the publication of the Parisian satirical magazine Le Charivari, founded in 1832 .

Rudolf Gottschall

• Rudolf Gottschall becomes editor of the magazine Blätter for literary entertainment of the FA Brockhaus publishing house .

Non-fiction

• In the Royal Society published James Clerk Maxwell first time his theory of electric and magnetic fields , the Maxwell equations .
• The Africa explorer Theodor von Heuglin publishes the travelogue The German Expedition in East Africa in 1861 and 1862 .
• Richard Wagner publishes on behalf of Ludwig II of Bavaria the text About State and Religion .
• The Nieuw woordenboek der Nederlandsche taal ( New Dictionary of the Dutch Language ) appears in its first edition.
• Four years after the death of Arthur Schopenhauer , his editor Julius Frauenstädt published an estate volume that included the manuscript Eristische Dialektik . In it, Schopenhauer formulates 38 rhetorical stratagems , which should make it possible to emerge victorious from disputes, even if facts speak against the position taken.

German Shakespeare Society

• April 23 : On the occasion of the 300th birthday of William Shakespeare , the German Shakespeare Society was founded as the first scientific and cultural association of its kind by Wilhelm Oechelhäuser and Franz von Dingelstedt in Weimar .

Born

January to June

• January 14 : Hermann Herder , German publisher († 1937 )
• January 28 : Florens Christian Rang , German Protestant theologian, writer, politician († 1924 )

• February 2 : Djado Blago , Bulgarian poet and teacher († 1938 )
• February 6 : John Henry Mackay , German writer († 1933 )
• February 16 : Hermann Stehr , German writer († 1940 )
• February 17 : Andrew Barton Paterson , Australian lawyer, writer and journalist († 1941 )
• February 21 : Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto , Brazilian writer († 1934 )
• February 22nd : Jules Renard , French writer († 1910 )
• February 26 : Antonín Sova , Czech poet and writer († 1928 )

• March 5 : Johann Baptist Laßleben , German homeland researcher and publisher († 1928 )
• March 7th : Wilhelm Arent , German poet and patron († after 1913 )
• March 19 : Charles M. Russell , American painter, sculptor, illustrator and writer († 1926 )

• April 4 : Futabatei Shimei , Japanese writer and translator of Russian literature († 1909 )
• April 11th : Johanna Elberskirchen , German author and feminist activist
• April 13 : Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps , Austrian writer, journalist and critic († 1945 )
• April 17 : Karl Henckell , German poet and writer († 1929 )
• April 24 : Paul Hagen , German philologist and librarian († 1938 )
• April 26 : Bona Peiser , Germany's first female public librarian († 1929 )
• April 30th : Georges Durand , French journalist and motorsport official († 1941 )
• April 30 : Juhan Liiv , Estonian poet and narrator († 1913 )

• May 5 : Nellie Bly , American journalist and world traveler († 1922 )
• May 5 : Hans Gerhard Gräf , German Goethe researcher († 1905 )
• May 11 : Ethel Lilian Voynich , British writer († 1960 )
• May 12 : Caesar Flaischlen , German lyric poet and dialect poet († 1920 )
• May 13 : Emil Gött , German writer († 1908 )
• May 31 : Ernst Ferdinand Ströter , German theologian, author of theological writings and missionary († 1922 )

• June 3 : Otto Erich Hartleben , German playwright, poet and narrator († 1905 )

July to December

• July 8 : Fred Holland Day , American photographer and publisher († 1933 )
• July 13 : John Jacob Astor IV , American businessman, inventor and writer († 1912 )
• July 18 : Ricarda Huch , German writer, poet and narrator († 1947 )
• July 20 : Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish poet († 1931 )
• July 29 : Anton Noder , German doctor and poet († 1936 )

• August 5 : Irene Forbes-Mosse , German writer and painter († 1946 )
• August 14 : Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie , Austrian writer († 1931 )
• August 27 : Helena Patursson , Faroese writer and women's rights activist († 1916 )
• August 30 : Christiaan Cornelissen , Dutch author, activist, libertarian socialist († 1942 )

• September 24 : Nils Collett Vogt , Norwegian writer († 1937 )
• September 29 : Miguel de Unamuno , Spanish philosopher and writer († 1936 )
• October 14 : Stefan Żeromski , Polish writer († 1925 )

• November 11th : Alfred Hermann Fried , Austrian pacifist, publicist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate († 1921 )
• November 11 : Maurice Leblanc , French crime novel writer († 1941 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Siddiqiy Ajziy , Uzbek writer († 1927 )

Died

Karadžić's grave in Belgrade

• February 7th : Vuk Stefanović Karadžić , Serbian philologist, language reformer of the Serbian written language, ethnologist, poet, translator and diplomat (* 1787 )

• March 21 : Karl Benedikt Hase , German classical philologist and librarian (* 1780 )
• March 29 : Karl August Timotheus Kahlert , German poet and literary historian (* 1807 )

• April 15 : Eberhard von Groote , Germanist, writer and politician (* 1789 )
• May 19 : John Clare , English poet (* 1793 )

Nathaniel Hawthorne's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord , Massachusetts

• May 19 : Nathaniel Hawthorne , American writer (* 1804 )
• May 22 : Lulu von Thürheim , Austrian painter and writer (* 1788 )
• May 26 : Charles Sealsfield , Austrian-American writer (* 1793 )

• June 18 : Albert Knapp , German poet (* 1798 )
• June 18 : Johann Valentin Adrian , German neophilologist and librarian (* 1793 )
• June 25 : Otto Ruppius , German writer (* 1819 )

• August 24 : Jakob Lorber , Austrian writer and musician (* 1800 )

Ferdinand Lassalle's death mask

• August 31 : Ferdinand Lassalle , German politician and publicist (* 1825 )

See also

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

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• Digitized newspapers from 1864 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library
• Austrian newspapers from 1864 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library
• Digitized editions of Le Monde illustré 1864 in Gallica.fr
• Le Petit Journal 1864