1858 in literature

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Events

Prose

  • Mary Anne Evans published under the male pseudonym George Eliot, the three short stories The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, Mr. Gilfil 's Love Story and Janet's Repentance, which appeared last year in Blackwood 's Edinburgh Magazine, under the title of Scenes of Clerical Life. So she celebrates her first literary success.

Drama

  • December 5: The Munich Marionette Theatre is his first performance. It is considered the oldest stationary stage for puppets in the German area.
  • The French playwright Henri Meilhac wrote the piece L' autograph.

Periodicals

  • The author Friedrich Wilhelm Hack countries as editor and publisher and bookseller Edward Hall Berger found in Stuttgart for the weekly illustrated Unterhaltungsblatt Over land and sea.
  • WO von Horn first published the monthly magazine The Maje.
  • Ferdinand Goetz takes over the editorship of the German Gymnastics newspaper of Ernst Keil.

Scientific works

  • August: Karl Marx starts working on the text to the Critique of Political Economy, which he will complete in January 1859.
  • November: Karl Marx completed in London the work plans of the critique of political economy, which is considered one of the preparatory work on Capital. The economic writing, first developed in Marx 's theory of value and the theory of surplus value, until 1902 rediscovered and published.
  • The first edition of Gray's Anatomy anatomical work of British physician Henry Gray appears.
  • Friedrich August von Quenstedt be published paleontological standard work The Jura.
  • Max Preßler solves with his book The rational forest Wirth and his silviculture of the highest income from a continuing into the first third of the 20th century forestry debate on the floor net income doctrine.

Religion

  • MAY 3: In the encyclical, Pope Pius IX Amantissimi redemptoris used. against the observed development in some places that the celebration of Mass, the priest no longer practiced. The Pope exhorts all priests to officiate dutiful.

Born

  • JANUARY 5: Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish writer († 1909)
  • January 7: Eliezer Ben- Yehuda, journalist and author of the first modern Hebrew dictionary († 1922)
  • March 6: Gustav Wied, Danish writer († 1914)
  • MARCH 6: Jiri Polivka, Czech Slavic languages ​​, literary scholar and folklorist († 1933)

Died

  • Yanagawa Seigan, Japanese poet (* 1789)
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