1852 in literature
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Events
Prose
- 20 March: The novel Uncle Tom 's Cabin ( Uncle Tom's Cabin ) by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published with a circulation of 5,000 copies for the first time in book form. The work is out of print within 48 hours. In the same year, many of the anti - Tom literature attributable to the works of other authors come out.
- March: The first part of the continuing story Bleak House by Charles Dickens appears.
- August: Jules Verne published the short story L' Amérique du Sud. Moeurs péruviennes. Martin Paz, nouvelle historique ( Martin Paz ). In the same year he also published Les Châteaux en Californie ou Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse.
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy published his first work, the narrative childhood in which he blends fictional and autobiographical elements.
- Jeremias Gotthelf wrote the story Barthli the Korber.
Drama
- Friedrich Hebbel's tragedy Agnes Bernauer has its world premiere in Munich. It is controversial from the outset with the critics, however, a popular success.
Periodicals
- The last edition of which was founded by Louise Otto Women's Newspaper - An institution for higher female interests will appear in Gera.
Scientific works
- April 29: In Britain, the 15,000 -word Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget, who subsequently rapidly triggers reprints due to high demand appears.
Born
- January 4: Mite Kremnitz, German writer († 1916)
- JANUARY 12: Hugo Zöller, German explorer and journalist († 1933)
- February 13: Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer († 1912)
- February 24: George Moore, Irish writer († 1933)
- March 5: Isabella Augusta Gregory, Irish writer († 1932)
- MARCH 13: Oscar Blumenthal, German writer and playwright († 1917)
- APRIL 12: Agnes Sapper, German writer († 1929)
- APRIL 17: Ida Boy-Ed, German writer († 1928)
- April 25: Leopoldo Alas ( Clarín ), Spanish writer († 1901)
- May 4: Alice Liddell, a template for the heroine in Alice in Wonderland († 1934)
- July 14: Walter Robert - Tornow, German translator († 1895)
- September 2: Paul Bourget, French poet and critic († 1935)
- October 1: Richard Kralik, Austrian writer and philosopher († 1934)
- October 16: Karl Ludwig Schemann, German writer, translator and researcher race († 1938)
- October 22: Adam Müller- Guttenbrunn, Austrian writer and theater director († 1923)
- OCTOBER 28: Theodor Fritsch, German publicist anti -Semitic literature († 1933)
- December 13: Emanuel Schreiber, an Austrian rabbi and writer († 1905)
- Minas Tscheras, Armenian writer and teacher († 1929)
Died
- JANUARY 5: Gabriel Ferry, French writer (* 1809)
- January 6: Louis Braille, French inventor of the Braille ( Braille ) (* 1809)
- January 24: Jan Kollár, Slovak poet and scholar (* 1793)
- FEBRUARY 25: Thomas Moore, Irish writer (* 1779)
- March 4: Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (* 1809)
- March 10: Armand Marrast French journalist (* 1801)
- March 18: Friedrich Wilhelm Carove, German jurist, German scholar and philosopher (* 1789)
- December 13: Karl Baldamus, German jurist, journalist, poet, storyteller and poet (* 1784)
- Mirza - Schaffy, Azerbaijani poet (* 1794)