Christian Dietrich Grabbe (December 11, 1801 – September 12, 1836) was a German dramatist.
He was born in Detmold, Germany. He wrote many historical plays and is also known for his use of satire and irony. He wanted to be Germany's greatest poet, which is probably why he became an alcoholic. He also suffered from an unhappy marriage. Heinrich Heine saw him as one of Germany's foremost dramatists; he called him "a drunken Shakespeare". Even though Bertolt Brecht wanted to stage Grabbe's "Hannibal", the National Socialists saw ...
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1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
1836 - Events.
January - Book by Maria Monk claims that she was sexually exploited in a Canadian convent
February 3 - United States Whig Party holds its first convention in Albany, New York.
February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a pat ...
September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). There are 110 days remaining.
September 12 - Events.
490 BC - Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon - but see 12 August; origin of the marathon long-distance race (attributed to Pheidippides)
1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester defeats Peter II of Aragon, the king of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.Including:
Don Juan is a legendary fictional libertine, whose story has been told many times by different authors. The name is sometimes used figuratively, as a synonym for "seducer". The story ends dramatically, with Don Juan's descent into Hell.
Most agree that Don Juan is based on a legendary 17th century Spanish nobleman Don Juan Tenorio.
Don Juan - The Don Juan legend.
The legends say that Don Juan seduced a young girl (Doña Ines) of noble family, and killed her father (Don Fernando). Later, he came acros ...
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1801 (MDCCCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
1801 - Events.
January 1 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
January 1 - Giuseppe Pi ...
1836 - Unknown dates.
Chartists in Britain demand universal male suffrage.
Boers in South Africa begin the Great Trek across the Orange River.
Henry R. Campbell builds the first 4-4-0, a steam locomotive type that will soon become the most common on all railroads of the United States.
First printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary.
Andrew Crosse's electrical experiment seems to produce strange insects; t ...
The legends say that Don Juan seduced a young girl (Doña Ines) of noble family, and killed her father (Don Fernando). Later, he came across a statue of the father in a cemetery and impiously invited it home to dine with him, an invitation which the statue gladly accepted. The ghost of the father arrived for dinner as the harbinger of Don Juan's death. The Statue asks to shake Don Juan's hand, and w ...
Another more recent version of the legend of Don Juan is that presented in José Zorilla's (1817-1893) "Don Juan Tenorio" (1844). The version is formatted as a play in which Don Juan is depicted quite villainously. The action starts off with Don Juan meeting with his old friend Don Luis and the two men recounting their conquests and vile deeds of the last year. In terms of the number of murders and of conquests (i.e. seductions), Don Juan out-scores his friend Don Luis. Outdone, Don Luis replies that his friend has never had a woman pure of ...
