1870 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

• June 9: Charles Dickens ' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( The Mystery of Edwin Drood ) remains unfinished because the author died while working on the detective novel of a stroke.

• June: Jules Verne published the second volume of the novel Vingt mille sous les mers lieues (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ).

• The novella Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher- Masoch is published. It is part of his large-scale amendment cycle The Legacy of Cain, however, is not completed.

Periodicals

Religion

• February 26: In a lecture in London the religious scholar Friedrich Max Müller defined from a European perspective eight faiths as religions of the book.

Born

First half year

• January 2: Ernst Barlach, German writer, sculptor and graphic artist († 1938)
• January 3rd: Henry Handel Richardson, Australian writer († 1946)
• January 6: Eduard Stemplinger, German writer († 1964)

• On February 2nd, Annette Kolb, German writer († 1967)
• FEBRUARY 3: Ada Negri, Italian writer († 1945)
• FEBRUARY 21: Víctor Mercante, Argentine educator and writer († 1934)
• February 23: Hans von Kahlenberg, German writer († 1957)
• FEBRUARY 28: Paul Heidel Bach, German writer, city archivist, editor and librarian († 1954)

• March 5: Frank Norris, American writer († 1902)
• MARCH 8: Erich Schultz- Ewerth, German colonial civil servant and writer († 1935)
• March 15: Gaston Arman de Caillavet, French dramatist and librettist († 1915)
• 20 March: Arthur Eloesser, German journalist and literary historian († 1938)
• MARCH 20: Paul von Lettow -Vorbeck, Prussian major general and writer († 1964)

• MAY 9: Hans Baluschek, German painter, graphic artist and writer († 1935)
• MAY 12: Guido of Gillhaußen, German officer and Kriegspoet († 1918)
• JUNE 25: Robert Erskine Childers, Irish author and freedom fighter († 1922)

Second half- year

• August 27: Amado Nervo, Mexican writer, journalist and diplomat († 1919)
• September 27: Alfred German - German, Austrian writer, journalist, screenwriter and film director († 1943)
• October 22: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer and poet († 1953)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Ahmed Hikmet Müftüoğlu, Turkish poet and writer († 1927)
• Mihran Mardirossian, Armenian bookseller and publicist ( † 1936)

Died

• FEBRUARY 25: Henrik Hertz, Danish writer (* 1798)
• MARCH 8: Karl August Kober stone, German literature historian (* 1797)
• March 15: Matthew Friedrich Chemnitz, German jurist and poet; wrote the text for the Schleswig-Holstein - song (* 1815)

• 9 June: Charles Dickens, English novelist (* 1812)
• JUNE 18: Karl Eduard Vehse, German historian (* 1802)
• 20 June: Jules de Goncourt, French writer (* 1830)
• 24 June: Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet (* 1833)

• JULY 28: Bernhard Dunker, Norwegian lawyer and political writer (* 1809)
• AUGUST 21: Gustav Struve, German statesman, lawyer, journalist and revolutionary of 1848/49 (* 1805)

• December 5th: Alexandre Dumas, French writer (* 1802)