Literature year 1873

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Lev Tolstoy 1873 portrayed by
Ivan Kramskoi

Events

prose

Binding of the original French edition from 1873

January 30th : The novel Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ( Journey around the earth in 80 days ) by Jules Verne is published.

The novel The Demons by Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski appears.
The novella The Amulet by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer appears in Leipzig.
The story Der Lex von Gutenhag by Peter Rosegger appears in Pest.
The novel Die Geier-Wally appears, in which Wilhelmine von Hillern artistically processes the life of the Tyrolean painter Anna Stainer-Knittel .

drama

May 11th: World premiere of the fairy tale drama Snowflake by Alexander Ostrowski in Moscow
Émile Zola reworked his novel Thérèse Raquin , published in 1867 , into the play of the same name.

Periodicals

The gazebo 1873

Scientific literature

February 28 : The Norwegian doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen describes his observations about the leprosy pathogen Mycobacterium leprae that he discovered .

Others

Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud in an argument.
Lev Tolstoy begins work on Anna Karenina , which will last until 1876 .

Born

January 9 : Chaim Nachman Bialik , Jewish poet, author and journalist († 1934 )
January 20 : Johannes V. Jensen , Danish writer and Nobel Prize winner († 1950 )
January 28 : Colette , French writer and journalist († 1954 )
February 11 : Georg Hirschfeld , German playwright and narrator († 1942 )
February 11 : Rudolf Hans Bartsch , Austrian writer († 1952 )
March 10 : Jakob Wassermann , German writer († 1934 )
April 25 : Walter de la Mare , English poet and author († 1956 )
May 17 : Henri Barbusse , French politician and writer († 1935 )
June 19 : Friedrich Huch , German poet and writer († 1913 )
June 21 : Henry Tomlinson , British writer and journalist († 1958 )
June 24th : Maurice Ascher , Swiss writer and teacher († 1965 )
July 11th : Louis Pinck , German folk song researcher and collector († 1940 )
July 13 : Alfons Breska , Czech poet and translator († 1946 )
August 19 : Friedrich von der Leyen , German specialist in German († 1966 )
September 8 : Alfred Jarry , French writer († 1907 )
September 11 : Rudolf Kassner , Austrian writer, essayist, translator, cultural philosopher († 1959 )
September 20 : Lulu von Strauss and Torney , German poet and writer († 1956 )
October 3 : Vyacheslav Shishkov , Russian writer († 1945 )
October 17 : Alfred Polgar , Austrian writer († 1955 )
November 30th : Božena Benešová , Czech poet, writer († 1936 )
December 17 : Ford Madox Ford , British writer († 1939 )
unknown: Zabelle Boyajian , Ottoman-Armenian writer and translator († 1957 )

Died

January 18 : Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton , English novelist (* 1803 )
April 23 : Wolfgang Menzel , German late Romantic poet (* 1798 )
May 22 : Alessandro Manzoni , Italian writer (* 1785 )

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