This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1836.
Events
March 31 (dated April) – The first monthly part of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is issued in London. On April 20, the original illustrator, Robert Seymour, shoots himself and Dickens has more freedom to develop the story in his own way.
November 6 – The funeral of Czechromantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha takes place on what should have been the day of his wedding to Eleonora Šomková, about a month after the birth of their child. Mácha had overexerted himself in helping put out a fire and died just before his 26th birthday of pneumonia in Litoměřice.[5]
The Hon. Grantley Berkeley M.P. assaults publisher James Fraser in his office over a review published in Fraser's Magazine of Berkeley's Berkeley Castle: an historical romance (for which Berkeley is convicted). Berkeley subsequently fights a pistol duel with the review's (anonymous) author William Maginn in London without hurt to either party.[7]
The dissertation of the German writer Georg Büchner on the common barbel (fish), Barbus barbus, "Mémoire sur le Système Nerveux du Barbeaux (Cyprinus barbus L.)", appears in Paris and Strasbourg. After receiving his doctorate, he is appointed in October by the University of Zurich as a lecturer in anatomy.
Claude François Lallemand – Des Pertes séminales involuntaires (On involuntary seminal losses, 3 vols, to 1842)
John Murray III – A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent; being a guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia and northern Germany, and along the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland
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