Literature year 1872

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prose

Title page with an illustration by the draftsman Jules Férat

Jules Verne publishes the novel Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans l'Afrique australe ( Adventures of three Russians and three Englishmen in South Africa ) by Pierre-Jules Hetzel .

From Tolstoy the narrative appear Prisoner of the Caucasus , as well as short stories Jermak and the conquest of Siberia and an exile .

Julius Stinde had the "police novel " In eiserner Faust , an early example of German crime literature , published by August Prinz in Altona under the pseudonym J. Steinmann . Only one copy of the work has survived.

The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz publishes the novella Na marne ( Splintered ).

By Theodor Storm , the amendment appears Outside in Heidedorf .

Friedrich Gerstäcker published Im Eckfenster .

The Haideprinzeschen by E. Marlitt appears as a book edition.

The Princess and the Goblin is published by George MacDonald .

drama

January 3 : Ivan Turgenev's play A Month in the Country premieres at Moscow's Maly Theater .
October 12th : Ludwig Anzengruber's play Die Kreuzelschreiber has its world premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. The music for the peasant comedy with singing comes from Adolf Müller senior .

Periodicals

Boston Globe logo

The daily newspaper The Boston Globe is founded. The first issue will appear on March 4th .
March 24th : The first edition of the illustrated Wiener Extrablattes , which was published until 1928 - at times one of the highest-circulation Austrian newspapers - appears in Vienna.

The gazebo 1872

Non-fiction

November 26 : The first edition of Charles Darwin's work The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals ( The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals ) appears.
The capital of Karl Marx is translated into Russian.

religion

Baha'ullah begins to write the Kitab-i-Aqdas , the holiest book of the Baha'i .

Prices

On the occasion of Franz Grillparzer's 80th birthday, Katharina Fröhlich donates the Franz Grillparzer Prize .

Born

First half of the year

January 9 : Emma Grolimund , Swiss writer and teacher († 1944 )
January 15 : Arsen Borissowitsch Kozojew , Soviet writer († 1944 )
January 16 : Edward Gordon Craig , English actor, director and theater theorist († 1966 )
January 19 : Heinrich Laufenberg , German historian, journalist and politician († 1932 )
January 31 : Zane Gray , American writer († 1939 )

February 8 : Theodor Lessing , German philosopher and publicist († 1933 )
February 12 : Diedrich Speckmann , German writer († 1938 )
February 27 : Ellery Sedgwick , American writer († 1960 )

March 3 : Wilhelm Ahrens , German mathematician and writer († 1927 )
March 6 : Johan Bojer , Norwegian writer († 1959 )
March 22nd : Fritz Stüber-Gunther , Austrian writer († 1922 )
March 31 : Sergei Djagilew , Russian editor, art critic and curator († 1929 )

April 5 : Emmy von Egidy , German sculptor and writer († 1946 )
April 11 : Asdreni , Albanian poet († 1947 )
April 13 : Alexander Roda Roda , Austrian writer and publicist († 1945 )

June 15 : Cicely Hamilton , British writer and playwright († 1952 )
June 18 : Matti Aikio , Norwegian poet († 1929 )

Second half of the year

July 4 : Käthe Papke , German native writer († 1951 )
July 8 : Sasaki Nobutsuna , Japanese writer († 1963 )
July 10 : Jacques Bizet , French entrepreneur and writer († 1922 )

August 10 : Fritz Lau , Low German writer († 1966 )
August 18 : Hugo Bettauer , Austrian writer († 1925 )
August 21 : Aubrey Beardsley , British poet, draftsman, graphic artist, caricaturist and illustrator († 1898 )

September 10 : Vladimir Klawdijewitsch Arsenjew , Russian explorer and writer († 1930 )
September 15 : Ina von Grumbkow , German adventurer and author († 1942 )
September 22 : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott , American poet, novelist and children's book author († 1958 )
September 30 : Wilhelm Lobsien , German writer († 1947 )
October 25 : Franc-Nohain , French writer and librettist († 1934 )

November 1 : Friedrich Funder , Austrian journalist and publicist, publisher of the Vienna daily newspaper Reichspost († 1959 )
November 15 : Hans Dominik , German engineer, science fiction and non-fiction author († 1945 )
November 15 : Okamoto Kidō , Japanese playwright († 1939 )
November 25 : Robert de Flers , French playwright and journalist († 1927 )
November 30 : John McCrae , Canadian poet, writer and medic († 1918 )
December 12 : Bruno Cassirer , German publisher and gallery owner († 1941 )

Died

Grillparzer's tomb in the Hietzing cemetery

January 21 : Franz Grillparzer , Austrian poet (* 1791 )
January 22nd : Franz von Elsholtz , German poet and writer (* 1791 )

April 13 : Thomas Vowler Short , British clergyman and writer (* 1790 )
April 30 : Walpurga Schindl , Tyrolean poet (* 1826 )

May 13 : Moritz Hartmann , Austrian journalist, writer and politician (* 1821 )

Gerstäcker's grave in the Magnifriedhof in Braunschweig

May 31 : Friedrich Gerstäcker , German adventurer and writer (* 1816 )

June 21 : Robert Prutz , German writer (* 1816 )
July 7th : Pierre Lachambeaudie , French fabulous poet (* 1806 )
July 23 : William Bridges Adams , British publicist, railroad designer and entrepreneur (* 1797 )

August 21 : David Kalisch , German writer (* 1820 )
September 8 : Paolo Emiliani Giudici , Italian literary historian and literary scholar (* 1812 )

October 2 : Francis Lieber , German-American lawyer, publicist, legal and state philosopher (* 1800 )
October 15 : Handrij Zejler , Sorbian poet and editor (* 1804 )

Grave of Théophile Gautier at the Cimetière de Montmartre

October 23 : Théophile Gautier , French writer (* 1811 )

November 5 : Adolf Ellissen , German politician, philologist and literary historian (* 1815 )
November 23 : John Bowring , British statesman, traveler and writer (* 1792 )

December 2 : Wincenty Pol , Polish writer, geographer and ethnographer (* 1807 )
December 23 : George Catlin , American painter, author and Indian expert (* 1796 )