1801 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1801.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children
- Christoph von Schmid – Biblische Geschichte für Kinder (Bible Stories for Children)[7]
- Priscilla Wakefield – The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of a Family during a Tour through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 14 – Jane Welsh Carlyle, Scottish writer, wife of Thomas Carlyle (died 1866)[9]
- February 13 – János Kardos, Hungarian evangelical priest, teacher and writer (died 1875)
- February 16 – Frederic Madden, English palaeographer (died 1873)
- February 21 – Cardinal John Henry Newman, English theologian and autobiographer (died 1890)
- March 4 – Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, Swiss theologian and historian (died 1874)
- March 15 – George Perkins Marsh, American philologist (died 1882)
- May 9 – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, Swedish novelist (died 1873)
- May 31 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and textual critic (died 1877)[10]
- June 24 – Caroline Clive, English writer (died 1873)[11]
- August 10 – Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant religious philosopher (died 1866)
- September 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French wit and dandy (died 1852)
- September 7 – Hortense Allart, Milanese-born French feminist novelist (died 1879)[12]
- November 3 – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859)[13]
- November 10 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (died 1872)
- November 22 – Abraham Hayward, English man of letters (died 1884)
- November 24 – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer and collector of folk tales (died 1860)[14]
- December 4 – Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher (died 1893)
- December 7 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist (died 1862)
- December 11 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German dramatist (died 1836)[15]
- December 12 – Edward Moxon, English poet and publisher (died 1858)
- unknown dates
Deaths
- January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (born 1741)
- January 9 – Margaretta Faugères, American playwright, poet and political activist (born 1771)
- January 13 – Robert Orme, English historian of India (born 1728)
- March 14 – Ignacy Krasicki, Polish poet and prince-bishop (born 1735)
- March 21 – John Holt, English scholar (born 1743)
- March 25 – Novalis, German poet (born 1772)[17]
- April 11 – Antoine de Rivarol, French scholar and epigrammatist (born 1753)
- September 1 – Robert Bage, English novelist (born 1728)
- September 7 – Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini, Italian painter, poet and art historian (born 1710)
- September 23 – Thomas Nowell, Welsh-born controversialist and historian (born c. 1730)[18]
- November 5 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar (born 1730)[19]
- December 25 – Hester Chapone, English writer of conduct books (born 1727)[20]
Notes and References
- Book: François-René de Chateaubriand . Atala. René les Natchez . 18 October 2012 . Le Livre de Poche . 978-2-253-09467-8 . 498–.
- Book: Charles Knight . The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Biography . 1857 . Bradbury & Evans . 2.
- Book: Das, Sisir Kumar . A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800 - 1910 . A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800 - 1910 . Sahitya Akademi . 2006.
- Book: Thomas Roebuck. The Annals of the College of Fort William: From the Period of Its Foundation to the Present Time. 18 April 2013. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-108-05604-5. 53.
- Book: Jane Campbell . The Retrospective Review (1820-1828) and the Revival of Seventeenth Century Poetry . 1 January 2006 . Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press . 978-0-88920-866-7 . 8–.
- Book: Kamilla Elliott . Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction: The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764–1835 . 19 October 2012 . JHU Press . 978-1-4214-0717-3 . 200.
- Book: Walther Killy . Walther Killy . Rudolf Vierhaus . Rudolf Vierhaus . Plett - Schmidseder . 30 November 2011 . Walter de Gruyter . 978-3-11-096630-5 . 769.
- Book: A History of German Literature . Ardent Media . 311 . GGKEY:WDSFB5WXYFD.
- Web site: Correspondence of Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866). JISC Archives Hub. 22 February 2024.
- Baiter, Johann Georg.
- P. D. Edwards, "Clive, Caroline (1801–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 retrieved 20 Feb 2008
- Helynne Hollstein Hansen, Hortense Allart : the woman and the novelist, Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1998. Page xix
- Baedeker, Karl.
- Bechstein, Ludwig. 1905.
- Book: Lob . Ladislaus . Konzett . Matthias . Encyclopedia of German Literature. . 2015 . Routledge . 978-1135941222 . 362–3 . 12 November 2019.
- Book: Duzee, Edward P. Van. Catalogue of Poetry in the English Language: In the Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, N.Y.. Public domain. 1902. Grosvenor Library (London, England).
- Book: Donehower, Bruce. 2007. 1815. Tieck, Ludwig. Ludwig Tieck. Ludwig Tieck "Biography of Novalis, 1815. . The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 126–136. 9780791480687.
- Book: Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy . Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Or, A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the Chief Officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: From the Earliest Time to Year MDCCXV . 1854 . Oxford University Press . 585.
- Web site: 本居宣長墓(樹敬寺)附 本居春庭墓. Japanese . . August 20, 2020.
- Book: Fanny Burney. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay) Volume V: West Humble and Paris, 1801-1803: Letters 423-549. 1972. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-812467-2. 106.