Literature year 1871

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Literature year 1871
Charles Darwin's two-volume work The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is published.	George Eliot publishes the novel Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life in several episodes.

Events

prose

April 8th to 18th : The story Die Harfe im Walde by Peter Rosegger appears in the Grazer Tagespost .

Book illustration for the cover of Jules Férat

July 17 : The novel Une ville flottante ( A floating city ) by Jules Verne appears for the first time in book form together with the short story Forceurs de blocus ( The Blockade Breakers ) by the Pierre-Jules Hetzel publishing house in Paris. In this autobiographical novel, the technology enthusiast Jules Verne describes the crossing on the Great Eastern, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to the United States, embellishing the events a little.

Cover illustration of the first edition

Christmas: As a sequel to Alice in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll publishes the novel Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There .

Émile Zola publishes the novel La Fortune des Rougon ( The happiness of the Rougon family ), the first part of his 20-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle .
Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz publish the first volume of the German Novell Treasure .
The Scottish pastor George MacDonald published the children's book At the Back of the North Wind ( Behind the North Wind ).
1871/72: George Eliot publishes the novel Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life in several episodes.

drama

November 1st : The comedy Der Wald by Alexander Ostrowski , published in the same year, has its world premiere at the Alexandrinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg.

Periodicals

November 7th : The French politician Léon Gambetta founds the daily newspaper La République française .

The gazebo 1871

Scientific works

February 24 : Charles Darwin's two-volume work The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ( The Descent of Man ) appears. In it he deals with the tribal history of humans and with sexual selection and uses the term " evolution " for the first time in one of his writings . The German translation, published in the same year, comes from the zoologist Julius Victor Carus .

Title page of the 2nd edition of On the Genesis of Species

St. George Mivart publishes The Genesis of Species , in which he denies the theory of evolution developed by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species .

Publishing

The publisher George Allen & Sons is founded in London .

Born

First half of the year

January 10 : Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti , Austrian writer († 1955 )
January 18 : Franz Blei , Austrian writer, translator and literary critic († 1942 )
January 26 : Samuel Hopkins Adams , American journalist and writer († 1958 )

February 6 : Hermann Alois Mayer , German businessman, health researcher, inventor, philosopher and writer ( bl. Until 1930 )
February 9 : Fran Saleški Finžgar , Slovenian Roman Catholic priest and writer († 1962 )
February 16 : Arthur Ponsonby , British civil servant, politician, writer and pacifist († 1946 )
February 21 : Paul Cassirer , German publisher and gallery owner († 1926 )
February 25 : Lesja Ukrainka , Ukrainian poet, dramaturge and translator († 1913 )
February 28 : Shimamura Hōgetsu , Japanese writer, literary critic and scholar († 1918 )
February 28 : Takayama Chogyū , Japanese writer († 1902 )

March 9 : Emil Rosenow , German writer († 1904 )
March 19 : Johannes Aisch , German beekeeper, specialist writer and editor († 1939 )
March 22nd : Franz Adam Beyerlein , German writer († 1949 )
March 27 : Heinrich Mann , German writer († 1950 )

April 9 : Fritz Gansberg , German writer, elementary school teacher and reform pedagogue († 1950 )
April 16 : John Millington Synge , Irish playwright († 1909 )
April 23 : František Josef Čečetka , Czech writer and educator († 1942 )

May 4 : Salomo Friedlaender , German philosopher and writer († 1946 )

Christian Morgenstern as a child

May 6 : Christian Morgenstern , German poet and writer († 1914 )

The castle in front of Husum, birthplace of Fanny zu Reventlow

May 18 : Fanny zu Reventlow , German writer († 1918 )
June 22 : Arthur Wynne , British editor, inventor of the crossword puzzle († 1945 )

Second half of the year

July 3 : William Henry Davies , English poet († 1940 )
July 10 : Marcel Proust , French writer, critic and intellectual († 1922 )
July 15 : Kunikida Doppo , Japanese writer († 1908 )

August 3 : Vernon Louis Parrington , American literary scholar and historian († 1929 )
August 21 : Leonid Nikolajewitsch Andrejew , Russian writer († 1919 )
August 27 : Theodore Dreiser , American writer († 1945 )
September 8 : Franz Karl Ginzkey , Austrian poet and writer († 1963 )
September 30 : Jan Fabricius , Dutch playwright and journalist († 1964 )

October 5 : Anna Ahrens , Low German local poet († 1960 )
October 7 : Georg Hermann , German writer († 1943 )
October 19 : Luigi Albertini , Italian politician and publicist († 1941 )
October 22 : Kurt Wildhagen , German Socratic teacher and editor of the works of Ivan Turgenev († 1949 )
October 23 : Gjergj Fishta , Albanian Franciscan and poet († 1940 )
October 30 : Paul Valéry , French philosopher, essayist, writer and poet († 1945 )

November 1 : Stephen Crane , American writer († 1900 )
November 2 : Arthur Tetzlaff , German publisher († 1949 )
November 3 : Hanns Heinz Ewers , German writer and filmmaker († 1943 )
November 10 : Winston Churchill , American writer († 1947 )

December 5 : Doi Bansui , Japanese poet and translator († 1952 )
December 13 : Emily Carr , Canadian painter and writer († 1945 )

Died

January 11 : Carl Weichselbaumer , German writer (* 1791 )
February 14 : Johann Friedrich Palm , German classical philologist and lexicographer (* 1813 )

March 28 : Adalbert Heinrich Graf von Baudissin , German writer (* 1820 )
April 15 : Karl Benjamin Preusker , German archaeologist, librarian and founder of the first public library in Germany (* 1786 )

Elisabeth pit

April 21 : Elisabeth Grube , German poet and writer (* 1803 )
May 1 : Andreas Andresen , German art book author (* 1828 )
May 14 : Agénor Étienne de Gasparin , French publicist and politician (* 1810 )
May 22 : Friedrich Halm , Austrian poet and playwright (* 1806 )

August 6 : Miroslav Vilhar , Slovenian author, composer and politician (* 1818 )
August 27 : Paul de Kock , French writer (* 1793 )

September 13 : Hermann Albert Daniel , German geographical writer (* 1812 )

İbrahim Şinasi

September 13 : Şinasi , Turkish poet and writer (* 1826 )
October 5 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afanassjew , Russian editor and fairy tale researcher (* 1826 )

December 16 : Willibald Alexis , German writer and poet (* 1798 )
December 17 : Henry Theodore Tuckerman , American writer (* 1813 )
December 21 : Louise Aston , German writer (* 1814 )

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Digitized newspapers from 1871 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library
Austrian newspapers from 1871 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library
Digitized editions of Le Monde illustré 1871 in Gallica.fr