1864 in literature
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Prose
- In the magazine Epoca, publishes his brother Mikhail in March, appears Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground hole.
- October to December: The short story Le Comte de Chanteleine of Jules Verne published in the journal Musée des Familles.
- NOVEMBER 25: Jules Verne's second novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth was first published by the publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel, under the title Voyage au center de la terre.
- November 26: Lewis Carroll Alice Liddell is on the handwritten manuscript Alice Under Ground.
Poetry
- December 3: Theodor Fontane contributes the ballad Gorm the Grim in a competition before the foundation of the tunnel hard on the Spree for the first time.
- Alfred Tennyson published the ballad Enoch Arden. The epic poem is rapid spread and becomes a huge success.
Drama
- APRIL 30: The play David Garrick by Thomas William Robertson has successfully premiered at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
Picture Stories
- Wilhelm Busch published the early work images antics. This includes four more stories: cat and mouse, Hansel and Gretel, Krischan with the Piepe and The Eispeter. The work is a failure. In the same year Busch published in Fliegende Blatter also the stories Diogenes and the bad boys of Corinth and Eginhard and Emma.
Periodicals
- Jules Verne's publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel are in Paris for the first time the youth magazine magazine illustré d' éducation et de récréation out.
- The first edition of the Journal for German naval affairs appears, one -monthly, technically oriented journal on all aspects of maritime affairs, shipbuilding, marine engineering and the issue of ports.
- Gottschall is editor of the journal sheets for literary entertainment of the FA Brockhaus Verlag.
- Louis Adrien Huart accepts the surrender of Paris, founded in 1832 the satirical magazine Le Charivari.
Scientific works
- In the Royal Society James Clerk Maxwell first published his theory of electric and magnetic fields, Maxwell's equations.
- The African explorer Theodor von Heuglin published the travelogue The German expedition to East Africa in 1861 and 1862.
German Shakespeare Society
- April 23: On the occasion of the 300th birthday of William Shakespeare done the founding of the German Shakespeare Society as the first scientific and cultural association of this kind by Wilhelm Oechelhaeuser and Franz von Dingelstedt in Weimar.
Born
- Siddiqiy Ajziy, Uzbek writer († 1927)
Died
- JANUARY 25: Otto Ruppius, German writer (* 1819)
- February 7: Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian philologist, reformer of the Serbian language written language, anthropologist, poet, translator and diplomat (* 1787)
- March 21: Charles Benoît Hase, German classical scholar and librarian (* 1780)
- MARCH 26: Charles Sealsfield, Moravian (b. 1793)
- MARCH 29: Karl August Timothy Kahlert, German poet and literary historian (* 1807)
- August 24: Jakob Lorber, Austrian writer and musician (* 1800)