1801 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1801.

Events

• April 2 – Battle of Copenhagen: In recognition of the English attack on Copenhagen, Adam Oehlenschläger produces his first dramatic sketch April the Second 1801.
• May – Jane Austen moves with her family to Bath.^[1]
• Hindusthani Press established in Calcutta, India, by John Gilchrist.^[2]
• The second edition of Specimens of the Early English Poets, edited by George Ellis and covering poems from the Old English through to the 17th century, is influential in acquainting the general reading public with Middle English poetry, going through a further 4 editions.
• The first complete Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic, Am Bìoball Gàidhlig, is published.

New books

Births

• 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 31 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and textual critic (died 1877)
• 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)
• November 3 – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859)
• 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)
• 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)
• December 12 – Edward Moxon, English poet and publisher (died 1858)
• Unknown date – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, Swedish novelist (died 1873)

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)
• 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)
• December 25 – Hester Chapone, English writer of conduct books (born 1827)

In literature

• Opening date of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights (1847)

References