1872 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

  • Jules Verne published in the publishing house of Pierre -Jules Hetzel Aventures de trois Russes the Roman et de trois Anglais dans l' Afrique australe ( Adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa).

Drama

Periodicals

  • The newspaper The Boston Globe is founded. The first issue will be published on March 4.
  • March 24: The first issue of the magazine until 1928 appearing Vienna Extra sheet - at times one of the most widely read Austrian newspapers - appears in Vienna.

Non-fiction

  • November 26: The first edition of Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals ( The Expression of the Emotions in Man and animals ) appears.
  • The Kapital by Karl Marx is translated into Russian.

Religion

  • Baha'ullah begins with the writing of the Kitab -i -Aqdas, the Most Holy Book of Bahai.

Prices

  • Katharina Fröhlich donates to celebrate the 80th birthday of Franz Grillparzer Franz Grillparzer Prize.

Born

First half year

  • February 8: Theodor Lessing, German philosopher and writer († 1933)
  • FEBRUARY 12: Diedrich Speckmann, German writer († 1938)
  • February 18: Matti Aikio, Norwegian poet († 1929)
  • FEBRUARY 27: Ellery Sedgwick, American writer († 1960)
  • March 3: Wilhelm Ahrens, German mathematician and writer († 1927)
  • MARCH 6: Johan Boii, Norwegian writer († 1959)
  • MARCH 22: Fritz Stueber Gunther, Austrian writer († 1922)
  • MARCH 31: Sergei Diaghilev, a Russian publisher, art critic and curator († 1929)
  • April 5: Emmy Egidy, German sculptor and writer († 1946)
  • April 13: Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer and journalist († 1945)

Second half- year

  • JULY 4: Kathe Papke, German native writer († 1951)
  • July 8: Sasaki Nobutsuna, Japanese writer († 1963)
  • July 10: Jacques Bizet, French entrepreneur and writer († 1922)

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Asdreni, Albanian poet († 1947)

Died

  • JANUARY 21: Franz Grillparzer, Austrian poet (* 1791)
  • January 22: St. Francis of Elsholtz, German poet and writer (* 1791)
  • AUGUST 21: David Kalisch, German writer (* 1820)
  • SEPTEMBER 8: Paolo Emiliani Giudici, an Italian literary historian and literary scholar (* 1812)
  • October 2: Francis Lieber, German - American lawyer, publicist, legal and political philosopher (* 1800)
  • OCTOBER 15: Handrij Zejler, Sorbian poet and publisher (* 1804)
  • October 23: Théophile Gautier, French writer (* 1811)
  • NOVEMBER 5: Adolf Ellissen, German politician, philologist and literary historian (* 1815)
  • November 23: John Bowring, a British statesman, traveler and writer (* 1792)
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