1863 in literature

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  • 2.1 First half of
  • 2.2 Second half of
  • 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Prose

  • January 31: Cinq semaines en ballon The novel ( Five Weeks in a Balloon ) by Jules Verne published in France. Verne's first novel is a success and quickly gives him national prominence. His new dystopian novel Paris au XXème siècle (Paris in the 20th century ) has rejected his publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel, because he fears that the pessimism of the work could destroy Verne's aspiring career. He proposes that the author suggests, therefore, to delay publication 20 years. Verne keeps the novel then under wraps, is finally published until 1994.
  • Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky published in edited by him and his brother Mikhail magazine Vremya the essay Winter records of summer impressions about his homemade summer trip through Europe.
  • March: the final episode of the serial story The Water - Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby of the British theologian and writer Charles Kingsley appears in Macmillan 's Magazine. The children's story is then published in book form.
  • The novella The Cossacks of the Russian author Leo N. Tolstoy appears as a serial story in the magazine The Russian Messenger.
  • The British woman Mary Elizabeth Braddon published the novel Aurora Floyd, a continuation of their success Lady Audley's Secret on the previous year.
  • Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm wrote the speech on and talk about the age shortly before his death.
  • Wilhelm Raabe published The people from the forest, elderflower and The Hämelschenburg children.
  • George Elliot published the novel Romola.

Poetry

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published the poetry collection Tales of a Wayside Inn, which contains, inter alia, his most famous poem Paul Revere 's Ride.

Drama

  • Gustav Freytag's Technique of the drama is one of the main dramaturgical textbooks of his time. Freytag summarizes here the dramatic theory of the closed drama according to Aristotle, and especially Friedrich Schiller the so-called pyramidal structure (exposition and exciting moment, climax denouement, retarding element and solution or catastrophe ) of classical drama together.

Periodicals

General modes Newspaper 1863

Harper 's Weekly in June 1863

  • MAY 24: The edited by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail since 1861 Vremya magazine is banned for publishing works critical of the government of censorship.
  • December 30: The German -speaking Livonian magazine founded in 1836, Domestic represents the 28th vintage ceased publication.

Scientific works

Natural sciences

  • Beginning of the year: The six-part lecture series about our knowledge of the causes of the phenomena of organic nature by Thomas Henry Huxley is after the speaker has received high praise from his example, Charles Darwin, published in book form.
  • The German zoologist Alfred Brehm published in the Bibliographical Institute essays and travel reports on zoological subjects in the form of individual deliveries with a circumference of approximately 48 pages. This produces in the next few years the reference Brehm's animal life.

Economics

  • January: Karl Marx completed in London working on his extensive economic manuscript, which is summarized after his death in the book Theories of Surplus Value.
  • In its publication The indirect tax and the Condition of the Working Class Ferdinand Lassalle used pejoratively for the first time the term " Manchesterism ".

Other works

  • The African-American historian and writer William Wells Brown published the book The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements.
  • Theodor Fontane published the second volume of the walks through the Mark Brandenburg.
  • Li livres dou trésor, an encyclopedia of the 13th century by Brunetto Latini, is reissued in the original French.
  • In his travel journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile ( The discovery of the sources of the Nile ) founded the British explorer John Hanning Speke a Hamit theory.

Religion

Others

  • January 3: For the January issue of the magazine Harper 's Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast draws the first time the modern figure of Santa Claus.
  • February 3: The writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used in a work the pen name Mark Twain.
  • Samuel Butler published the article Darwin among the Machines, which he later incorporated into his satirical utopian novel Erewhon.

Born

First half year

  • January 8: Paul Scheer beard, German writer and illustrator fantastic literature († 1915)
  • JANUARY 14: Richard Felton Outcault, American comic book artist, writer and painter († 1928)
  • JANUARY 25: Rufus Jones, American author, college professor, mystic, philosopher and Quaker († 1948)
  • JANUARY 26: Hans Gruber wife, Austrian writer († 1933)
  • February 9: Anthony Hope, English lawyer and author († 1905)
  • February 9: Ernst Kreidolf, Swiss graphic artist and book illustrator images († 1956)
  • February 22: Rudolf Dietz, German folk poet († 1942)
  • March 3: Arthur Machen, Welsh fantasy writer († 1947)
  • March 10: Sigismund Framers, German writer, editor and researcher Kleist († 1912)

Second half- year

  • August 3: Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian writer († 1922)
  • August 17: John Methöfer, Dutch editor, author, and anarchist propagandist († 1933)
  • AUGUST 21: Adele Gerber, German editor and women's rights activist († 1937)
  • October 9: Adam Müller, German folk poet, singer and humorist Hessian dialect († 1932)
  • October 10: Vladimir Afanassjevitch Obruchev, Soviet geologist, geographer and writer († 1956)
  • OCTOBER 13: Karl Allmendinger, German teacher and writer († 1946)
  • OCTOBER 19: Gustav Frenssen, German writer († 1945)

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Otto Heller, German - American literary scholar († 1941)

Died

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