Literature year 1870
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Overview of the literature years
Further events
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Charles Dickens ' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood remains unfinished. | Former Argentine President Bartolomé Miter founded the daily La Nación in Buenos Aires . |
Events
Franco-German War
- 24 / August 25 : During the Siege of Strasbourg in the German-Prussian War , the Strasbourg city library in Temple Neuf completely destroyed. Numerous valuable manuscripts are burned, including the medieval Hortus Deliciarum from the 12th century.
prose
- January 13 : Jules Verne publishes the novel Autour de la Lune ( Journey around the Moon ) by Pierre-Jules Hetzel's publishing house . It is a continuation of the work De la Terre à la Lune ( From the earth to the moon ) published in 1865 .
- June 9 : Charles Dickens ' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( The Mystery of Edwin Drood ) remains unfinished because the author while working on the crime novel dies of a stroke.
- June: Jules Verne publishes the second volume of the novel Vingt mille lieues sous les mers ( 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ).
- The novella Venus in Pelz by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is published. It is part of his large-scale cycle of novels, The Legacy of Cain , which is not completed.
- In the Cologne newspaper the publishing house DuMont, Cologne , the novel appears in the corner window of Friedrich Gerstäcker in sequels . The work, which was created in 56 working days and carefully considered the milieu, is one of the first German detective novels of the 19th century.
- The Finnish writer Aleksis Kivi publishes his only novel Seitsemän veljestä ( The Seven Brothers ) in Finnish. The work, which was heavily criticized by contemporaries, heralds the end of the predominance of Swedish-language literature in Finland.
Poetry
- Edward Lear publishes nonsense poems, including The Owl and the Pussy-cat .
drama
- With the popular play The pastor of the church field , which on November 5 at the Theater an der Wien under the pseudonym Louis Gruber premiered succeeds Ludwig Anzengruber the breakthrough as a dramatist.
- The historical tragedy Tsar Boris by Alexei Tolstoy appears , the final part of Alexei Tolstoy's dramatic trilogy , which began with The Death of Ivan the Terrible in 1866 and continued with Tsar Fedor Ivanovich in 1868 .
Periodicals
- January 4 : Former Argentine President Bartolomé Miter and several other people found the daily La Nación in Buenos Aires , which will develop into one of the most important newspapers in Argentina.
The gazebo 1870
religion
- February 26 : In a lecture in London, the religious scholar Friedrich Max Müller defined eight religious communities as book religions from a European perspective .
- November 1st : Pope Pius IX. protests in the encyclical Respicientes against the capture of Rome by Italian troops and imposes an immediate excommunication on authors and participants .
Born
First half of the year
- January 2 : Ernst Barlach , German writer, sculptor and draftsman († 1938 )
- January 3 : Henry Handel Richardson , Australian writer († 1946 )
- January 6 : Eduard Stemplinger , German writer († 1964 )
- February 3 : Annette Kolb , German writer († 1967 )
- February 3 : Ada Negri , Italian writer († 1945 )
- February 21 : Víctor Mercante , Argentine educator and writer († 1934 )
- February 23 : Hans von Kahlenberg , German writer († 1957 )
- February 28 : Paul Heidelbach , German writer, city archivist, editor and librarian († 1954 )
- March 5 : Frank Norris , American writer († 1902 )
- March 8 : Erich Schultz-Ewerth , German colonial official and writer († 1935 )
- March 13 : Gaston Arman de Caillavet , French playwright and librettist († 1915 )
- March 20 : Arthur Eloesser , German journalist and literary historian († 1938 )
- March 20 : Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck , Prussian major general and writer († 1964 )
- May 5 : Erdmann Graeser , German writer († 1937 )
- May 9 : Hans Baluschek , German painter, graphic artist and writer († 1935 )
- May 12 : Guido von Gillhaußen , German officer and war poet († 1918 )
- June 25 : Robert Erskine Childers , Irish author and independence fighter († 1922 )
Second half of the year
- July 1 : Inoue Kenkabō , Japanese writer († 1934 )
- July 13 : Eduard Clausnitzer , German theologian, pedagogue and writer († 1920 )
- July 27 : Hilaire Belloc , English writer († 1953 )
- August 27 : Amado Nervo , Mexican writer, journalist and diplomat († 1919 )
- September 27 : Alfred Deutsch-German , Austrian writer, journalist, screenwriter and film director († 1943 )
- October 22 : Ivan Alexejewitsch Bunin , Russian writer and poet († 1953 )
- November 1 : Christopher Brennan , Australian poet († 1932 )
- November 21 : Alexander Berkman , Lithuanian anarchist and writer († 1936 )
- November 21 : Gottfried Fankhauser , Swiss educator, writer and President of the Evangelical Society († 1962 )
- December 10 : Pierre Louÿs , French writer († 1925 )
- December 18 : Hector Hugh Munro , British writer († 1916 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Ahmed Hikmet Müftüoğlu , Turkish poet and writer († 1927 )
- Mihran Mardirossian , Armenian bookseller and publicist († 1936 )
Died
- February 25 : Henrik Hertz , Danish writer (* 1798 )
- March 8 : Karl August Koberstein , German literary historian (* 1797 )
- March 15 : Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz , German lawyer and poet; wrote the lyrics for the Schleswig-Holstein-Lied (* 1815 )
- April 12 : Ernst Siegfried Mittler , German publisher (* 1785 )
- May 15 : Harro Harring , German revolutionary, poet and painter (* 1798 )
- June 9 : Charles Dickens , English writer (* 1812 )
- June 18 : Karl Eduard Vehse , German historian (* 1802 )
- June 20 : Jules de Goncourt , French writer (* 1830 )
- June 24 : Adam Lindsay Gordon , Australian poet (* 1833 )
- July 28 : Bernhard Dunker , Norwegian lawyer and political author (* 1809 )
- August 21 : Gustav Struve , German politician, lawyer, publicist and revolutionary from 1848/49 (* 1805 )
- September 1 : Otto Wigand , German publisher and politician (* 1795 )
- September 18 : Amalie von Sachsen , German composer and writer (* 1794 )
- September 20 : John Brinckman , Low German writer (* 1814 )
- September 23 : Prosper Mérimée , French writer (* 1803 )
- November 1 : Frederick Chamier , English writer (* 1796 )
- November 24th : Comte de Lautréamont , French writer (* 1846 )
- December 5 : Alexandre Dumas the Elder , French writer (* 1802 )
- December 22nd : Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer , Spanish writer (* 1836 )
See also
Web links
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- Digitized newspapers from 1870 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library
- Austrian newspapers from 1870 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library
- Digitized editions of Le Monde illustré 1870 in Gallica.fr
- Le Petit Journal 1870