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)
- 21 June: Robert Prutz, German writer (* 1816)
- July 7: Pierre Lachambeaudie, French fabulist (* 1807)
- JULY 23: William Bridges Adams, a British journalist, railway engineer and entrepreneur (* 1797)
- 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)
- December 2: Wincenty Pol, Polish writer, geographer and ethnographer (* 1807)
- DECEMBER 23: George Catlin, American painter, author and Indian Kenner ( * 1796)
- December 31: Kivi, Finnish National (b. 1834)