1826 in literature

Events

• Early months – Aftermath of the Decembrist revolt in the Russian Empire. Michael Lunin, though not involved in the Decembrist conspiracy, is arrested and deported to Siberia, which allows him to begin his work as a philosopher. Adam Mickiewicz, deported from Congress Poland for his involvement with Filaret Association, is moved from Taurida Governorate to Moscow. Here, he publishes his Sonety krymskie. Later in the year, he befriends Russian writers, including Yevgeny Baratynsky, Mikhail Pogodin, Alexander Pushkin, and the Lyubomudry. Pushkin, himself returning from political exile, still writes poems discreetly honoring the Decembrists. They include Stansy, as well as odes to Nikolay Mordvinov and Ivan Pushchin.
• c. January – Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, pained by his recent divorce, enters his final creative period with hokku expressing his solitude and, at times, nihilistic thoughts.
• January 15 – The French newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris. In this first edition, it is a satirical weekly, reflecting the preoccupation of its two founders, Maurice Alhoy and Étienne Arago.
• January 17 – The Ballantyne printing business in Edinburgh crashes, ruining Sir Walter Scott as a principal investor. He undertakes to repay his creditors from his writings, although his publisher Archibald Constable also fails. Distress caused by the events contributes to the illness afflicting Scott's wife, Lady Charlotte; she dies in May.
• February 4 – In the Mexican Republic, lithographer Claudio Linati inaugurates El Iris, a "pocket sized" bi-weekly. It is in print until August 2, when its popularization of liberal ideas prompts the intervention of state censors; Linati leaves Mexico later in 1826, probably for political reasons.
• February 6
• *First print of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. This is Cooper's first book under contract with Philadelphia publishers Mathew Carey and Isaac Lea, following Charles Wiley's near-bankruptcy and death. It endures as "the most popular novel of the 1820s."
• *Charles L. Force brings printing to the Colony of Liberia and, ten days later, founds the bi-weekly Liberia Herald. Force dies later that year, but his publication is revived in 1830 by John Brown Russwurm.
• February 16 – Hungarian Serbs gather at Pest to set up Matica srpska, a cultural society dedicated to promoting the works of Serb writers. It sponsors Georgije Magarašević's Serbski Letopis, which remained "one of Europe's oldest, regularly published journals."
• March – Aged eight, the future orator and memoirist Frederick Douglass is lent by his master to the Aulds of Fell's Point, Baltimore. He will remain their house servant, and later their regular slave, until 1838, when he escapes via the Underground Railroad.
• April 16 – Thomas Pringle, a founding figure of South African literature, embarks on his return trip to England. His stay in the Cape Colony leads him to join and publicize for the Anti-Slavery Society.
• May 18 – At Buda, Habsburg Hungary, Wallachian intellectual Dinicu Golescu receives imprimatur for his Însemnare a călătoriei mele. This pioneering travelog covers extensive trips in Central and Western Europe, which Golescu had begun in 1824. The author documents his own "amazed 'discovery' of the West acceptance of his country's admitted inferiority." As a "manifesto for the new culture" Însemnare promotes Wallachia's passage into the Age of Enlightenment. For the same purpose Golescu sponsors a school on his estate.
• June – Despite having maintained links with the Decembrists, poet Alexander Griboyedov receives a "certificate of loyalism" from the Russian government.
• July 25 – Five Decembrist leaders, including poet Kondraty Ryleyev, are hanged in Senate Square, Saint Petersburg. Pushkin's papers of the time include a drawing of five silhouettes on a scaffold, with the words: "Me too, I could be...".
• August 19 – Louis Christophe François Hachette purchases Brédif bookshop on rue Pierre-Sarrazin, Paris. This becomes the first asset owned by Hachette publishing company.
• October – Tyrone Power gets his break as a principal Irish character actor at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
• October 17 – Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh marry in Templand.
• November
• *Hungarian philologist Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ends his stay at Teta, on the outskirts of Phugtal Monastery in Ladakh.
• *The London Missionary Society sets up the first printing press in Madagascar. It survives to 1836, being ultimately shut down for political reasons.
• December – At Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Henry Schoolcraft sets up a review called Literary Voyager, or Muzzeniegan. It includes poems and stories by his part-Ojibwe wife, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who thus becomes one of the first Native American literary professionals.
• December 5 – From his boarding school in Nezhin, Chernigov Governorate, Nikolai Gogol writes home to his mother, describing a "radical new change" in his poetic style. Only two pieces he wrote during this period have survived for posterity.
• c. December 25 – Edgar Allan Poe is forced to renounce his studies at the University of Virginia when his foster parent John Allan refuses to pay for his tuition.

• Almeida Garrett issues the poetry anthology Parnaso lusitano, which is both a milestone of Romanticism in Lusophone countries and a cause for debates regarding the emergence of a distinct Brazilian literature. The latter issue is also explored by French historian Jean-Ferdinand Denis, who includes an epilogue on "Brazil's literary history" to his Portuguese literature tract.
• In his London magazine Repertorio Americano, Andrés Bello publishes the final installment of his Las Silvas Americanas, known as Silva a la agricultura de la zona tórrida. It is sometimes described as a final masterpiece of Neoclassicism in Latin American literature.
• Lydia Maria Child's The Juvenile Miscellany, a magazine for children, begins publishing in Boston. Becoming "so popular that children used to sit on their doorsteps waiting for the mail carrier to deliver it," it lasts to 1834.
• Robert Morrison, missionary and Bible translator, returns from Malacca to England "with 10,000 Chinese books."
• Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, who puts out the Mélanges Asiatiques collection, publishes his translation of a Chinese classic: Iu-Kiao-Li, ou Les Deux Cousines.
• Francesco Vella puts out a translation of Francesco Soave's Trattato elementare dei doveri dell'uomo , as a textbook for Gozo College Boys' Secondary School. It is one of the first prose works published in the Maltese language.

  New books

Fiction

• Jicontencal. A Spanish Novel on the Conquest of Mexico
• Selina Bunbury – The Pastor's Tales
• François-René de Chateaubriand – Les Natchez
• James Fenimore Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans
• Benjamin Disraeli – Vivian Grey
• Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff – Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
• William Nugent Glascock – The Naval Sketch Book, or The Service Afloat and Ashore
• Catherine Gore – The Broken Heart
• Ann Hatton – Deeds of the Olden Time
• Wilhelm Hauff
• *Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts
• *Lichtenstein
• *Märchen almanach auf das Jahr 1826
• *Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan
• Victor Hugo – Bug-Jargal
• Bernhard Severin Ingemann – Valdemar Seier: En historisk Roman
• Anna Maria Porter – Honor O'Hara
• Jane Porter and Anna Maria Porter – Tales Round a Winter Hearth
• Ann Radcliffe – Gaston de Blondeville
• Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat – Iu-Kiao-Li, ou Les Deux Cousines
• Sir Walter Scott – Woodstock
• Mary Shelley – The Last Man
• Horace Smith – Brambleyte House, or, Cavaliers and Roundheads
• Alfred de Vigny – Cinq-Mars

  Children and young people

• Wilhelm Hauff – Märchen Almanach auf das Jahr 1826
• Rosalia St. Clair – Obstinacy
• Agnes Strickland
• *The Rival Crusoes, or, The Shipwreck
• *A Voyage to Norway
• *The Fisherman's Cottage: Founded on Facts
• *The Young Emigrant

  Drama

• Joanna Baillie – Martyr
• Timotei Cipariu – Ecloga pastorală
• Václav Kliment Klicpera – Veselohra na moste
• Mary Russell Mitford – Foscari
• Joseph Isidore Samson – La Belle-Mère et le gendre
• Eugène Scribe – Bertrand et Suzette; ou Le Mariage de raison

  Poetry

• Almeida Garrett – Parnaso lusitano
• Yevgeny Baratynsky – "Eda"
• Andrés Bello – Silva a la agricultura de la zona tórrida
• Alfred de Vigny – Poèmes antiques et modernes
• Ivan Gundulić – Osman
• Heinrich Heine – Die Harzreise
• Felicia Dorothea Hemans – "Casabianca"
• Robert Hetrick – Poems and Songs of Robert Hetrick
• Andreas Kalvos – Odes nouvelles
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon – "Erinna"
• William Leggett – Journals of the Ocean
• Adam Mickiewicz – Sonety krymskie
• Alexander Pushkin
• *I. I. Pushchinu
• *Morvinovu
• *Stansy
• Charles Tompson – Wild Notes, from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel
• Samuel Woodworth – "The Hunters of Kentucky"

  Non-fiction

• Burke's Landed Gentry
• Ioan Alexi – Grammatica dacoromana sive valachica
• Elias Boudinot – "An Address to the Whites"
• Giacomo Casanova – Histoire de ma vie
• Victor Collot – Voyage dans l'Amérique Septentrionale
• Jean-Ferdinand Denis – Résumé de l'histoire littéraire du Portugal, suivi du résumé de l'histoire littéraire du Brésil
• William Erskine – Memoirs of Babar
• Dinicu Golescu – Însemnare a călătoriei mele
• Wilhelm Hauff – Kontroverspredigt über H. Clauren und den Mann im Mond
• William Hazlitt – "Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen"
• Dietrich Georg von Kieser – System des Tellurismus oder thierisches Magnetismus
• Ferenc Kölcsey – Mohács
• Robert Morrison – A Parting Memorial, consisting of Miscellaneous Discources
• Abigail Mott – Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color
• Josiah Priest – The Wonders of Nature
• Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová – Domácí kuchařka
• Pavel Jozef Šafárik – Geschichte der slawischen Sprache und Literatur nach allen Mundarten
• Dovber Schneuri – Toras Chaim
• David Strauss, translated by George Eliot – The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined
• Francesco Vella – Trattat fuk l'Oblighi tal-Bniedem tal-Patri F. Soave

  Births

January–March

• January 3 – John White, English-born New Zealand historian and ethnographer
• January 5
• *Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird, American poet and journalist
• *Morten Eskesen, Danish folklorist and editor
• January 6 – Adolf Kirchhoff, German historian and philologist
• January 8
• *J. R. Black, Scottish journalist and publisher
• *Gabriele Dara, Italian and Albanian poet and journalist
• January 14 – Ivan Naumovich, Galician essayist and polemicist
• January 17
• *Adelaïde Ehrnrooth, Finnish novelist, poet and essayist
• *Wilhelm Lübke, German art historian
• January 19 – Gustav Hertzberg, German historian and translator
• January 20 – William Bonaparte-Wyse, Irish poet
• January 22 – Friedrich Ueberweg, German philosopher and historian
• January 23 – Edward Byles Cowell, English philologist and translator
• January 24 – Ditmar Meidell, Norwegian journalist and editor
• January 27
• *Eliza Allen, American memoirist
• * – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist, novelist and editor
• February 3 – Walter Bagehot, English essayist and journalist
• February 6 – Charles Barbier de Meynard, French historian
• February 9 – Samuel Bowles, American journalist and travel writer
• February 10 – Ernest de Bouteiller, French historian and politician
• February 12 – Prince George of Prussia, German general, poet and playwright
• February 14
• *George Kingsley, English travel writer, journalist and librarian
• *Ignacy Żagiell, Polish travel writer
• February 15 – Thomas Butler Gunn, English illustrator and journalist
• February 16 – Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, German poet and novelist
• February 19 – Matija Mesić, Croatian historian
• February 21 – Lois Waisbrooker, American essayist and publisher
• February 24 – Adolphe Bitard, French biographer and magazine editor
• February 26 – Oswald Ottendorfer, Moravian-born American journalist
• February 27
• *Manuel Antonio Matta, Chilean politician, journalist and editor
• *Samuel Timmins, English literary historian and librarian
• February 28 – Pamfil Yurkevich, Ukrainian-Russian philosopher
• March 1 – Nicolae Popea, Romanian-Hungarian historian
• March 4
• *August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German-Russian philologist, historian and newspaper editor
• *Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher and journalist
• March 15 – Adolphe Joseph Carcassonne, French poet and playwright
• March 19 – Stanislas d'Escayrac de Lauture, French travel writer and linguist
• March 20
• *Ruggero Bonghi, Italian journalist, historian and polemicist
• *Carel Vosmaer, Dutch poet and art critic
• March 22 – Lewys Glyn Dyfi, Welsh-born American poet and journalist
• March 24 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American journalist and editor
• March 27 – Johannes Overbeck, German historian

  April–June

• c. April – Lady Strangford, English travel writer, editor and illustrator
• April 1
• *Paride Suzzara Verdi, Italian revolutionary and journalist
• *Lady Dorothy Nevill, English memoirist
• April 10
• *Mustafa Celalettin Pasha, Polish-born Ottoman soldier and essayist
• *Pamelia Sarah Vining, American-born Canadian poet and novelist
• April 17 – Vojtěch Náprstek, Czech journalist, lecturer and book collector
• April 19 – Franciszek Kostrzewski, Polish illustrator
• April 20 – Dinah Craik, English novelist and poet
• April 21 – William Hearn, Irish essayist and legal scholar
• April 26 – Eduardo Asquerino, Spanish journalist, poet and playwright
• April 28
• *William Brough, English playwright
• *Frances Irene Burge Griswold, American poet and short story writer
• April 29 – Alfred B. Meacham, American playwright, polemicist and historian
• April 30 – Julius von Ficker, Prussian-born Austrian historian
• May 9 – Gregorio Gutiérrez González, Colombian poet
• May 10 – Henrik Krohn, Norwegian poet, journalist and language reformer
• May 12 – Alexander Roberts, Scottish philologist and historian
• May 13 – Clara Andersen, Danish playwright and novelist
• May 15 – Henri Mouhot, French ethnographer and travel writer
• May 22
• *Denys Corbet, Guernsey poet
• *Kostandin Kristoforidhi, Ottoman-Albanian translator and essayist
• *Christopher Columbus Langdell, American legal scholar
• May 23
• *Adile Sultan, Ottoman poet
• *Frances Fuller Victor, American historian and novelist
• May 25 – Ralph T. H. Griffith, English philologist and translator
• May 26 – Edgar Alfred Bowring, English translator and essayist
• May 31 – Gustav Brühl, American poet and journalist
• June – Thomas Gardiner, Scottish-born American newspaper publisher
• June 1 – Kornélia Prielle, Hungarian actress
• June 2 – Richard Holt Hutton, English essayist and journalist
• June 5 – Nathaniel Bryceson, English clerk and diarist
• June 10 – Bogoboj Atanacković, Serbian-Hungarian novelist and critic
• June 15
• *Bill Arp, American humorist
• *Luigi Ferri, Italian philosopher
• June 18 – Cäsar Rüstow, German military writer
• June 21 – Angelo Zottoli, Italian translator and literary historian
• June 25 – Émile Acollas, French legal scholar
• June 26 – Adolf Bastian, German polymath
• June 29 – Charles Ernest Beulé, French historian

  July–September

• July 2 – Ernest Hamel, French poet, historian and journalist
• July 3 – Rudolf Westphal, German historian and philologist
• July 4 – John Morris, English historian and Catholic theologian
• Amédée Guillemin, French science writer and journalist
• July 8
• *Friedrich Chrysander, German music historian and critic
• *Laurindo Rabelo, Brazilian poet
• July 12 – William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, English historian
• July 15 – Emily C. Blackman, American historian and journalist
• July 20 – Laura Keene, English actress
• July 23 – Alexander Afanasyev, Russian journalist and folklorist
• July 30 – Herbert William Fisher, English historian
• August 5
• *Andreas Aagesen, Danish legal scholar
• *İbrahim Şinasi, Ottoman journalist and playwright
• August 7 – August Ahlqvist, Finnish poet and philologist
• August 12
• *Nikolai Albertini, Russian journalist
• *Henry Clay Brockmeyer, German-born American poet, novelist, playwright and philosopher
• *Lucy Ellen Guernsey, American novelist
• August 14 – Eusebio Lillo, Chilean poet and journalist
• August 28 – Mikhail Stasyulevich, Russian historian and publisher
• August 31 – Emma Bedelia Dunham, American poet
• September 1 – Herbert Haines, English historian and Anglican theologian
• September 4 – Karl Blind, German-born revolutionary, historian and essayist
• September 6 – Leopold Ullstein, German newspaper publisher
• September 7 – Rajnarayan Basu, Bengali journalist, historian and Brahmoist theologian
• September 8 – Addison Peale Russell, American essayist
• September 10 – Fernand Desnoyers, French poet, critic and folklorist
• September 13 – Leonard Kip, American novelist and travel writer
• September 14 – Ljubomir Nenadović, Serbian poet and historian
• September 17 – Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion, Canadian journalist

  October–December

• October 8 – Luka Svetec, Slovene-Austrian poet and philologist
• October 9 – Agathon Meurman, Finnish journalist and lexicographer
• October 19
• *Manuel Joël, German historian, philosopher and Jewish theologian
• *Athénaïs Michelet, French science writer and memoirist
• October 22 – Pietro Amat di San Filippo, Italian historian
• October 23 – Charles-Honoré Laverdière, Canadian historian and editor
• October 26 – Dimitri Bakradze, Georgian-Russian historian
• October 27 – Marie von Olfers, German short story writer and illustrator
• November – Emily Verdery Battey, American journalist
• November 2 – William Haines Lytle, American soldier and poet
• November 4 – Emmanuel Domenech, French travel writer, folklorist and historian
• November 8 – Gualtherus Johannes Cornelis Kolff, Dutch East Indian publisher
• November 12 – Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Puerto Rican poet, playwright, essayist and literary historian
• November 13 – Jovan Đorđević, Serbian poet, playwright and editor
• November 14 – Heinrich Lang, German Reformed theologian and editor
• November 19 – Alfred Mézières, French journalist and historian
• c. November 23 – T. E. Kebbel, English journalist
• November 24
• *Carlo Collodi, Italian children's author, satirist and newspaper editor
• *Coates Kinney, American journalist and poet
• November 27
• *Robert Hugh Miller, American journalist and editor
• *António Augusto Soares de Passos, Portuguese poet
• December 10 – Franz Susemihl, German philologist and literary historian
• December 17 – Amédée de Jallais, French playwright and librettist
• December 18 – Alexandre Chatrian, French playwright and journalist
• December 22 – U. V. Koren, Norwegian-born American Lutheran theologian
• December 23 – William Blanchard Jerrold, English journalist and biographer
• December 26 – Valerian Kalinka, Polish historian and editor
• December 28
• *Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch pastor, journalist and literary critic
• *Vladimir Stoyunin, Russian essayist, literary historian and journalist
• December 30 – Philippe Baby Casgrain, Canadian historian

  Unknown dates

• Charles Hamilton Aide, French-born English novelist, poet and playwright
• David ben Shimon, Moroccan Jewish theologian
• József Borovnyák, Slovenian-Hungarian translator and Catholic theologian
• Thomas Chenery, Barbadian-born English scholar and editor
• Wali Dewane, Kurdish-Ottoman poet
• Liautaud Ethéart, Haitian playwright and essayist
• Frank Key Howard, American journalist and memoirist
• Albert Harrison Hoyt, English historian and editor
• Henry George Keene, English and Indian historian
• Mary Eva Kelly, Irish-born Australian poet
• Manol Lazarov, Bulgarian essayist and poet
• Bedros Magakyan, Ottoman-Armenian actor and theater director
• Frank Marryat, English memoirist and travel writer
• Augustus Mayhew, English journalist, humorist and theatrical producer
• Mishkín-Qalam, Persian calligrapher and Bahá'í mystic
• Hana Catherine Mullens, Bengali novelist and translator
• Tasos Neroutsos, Greek-born historian and language reformer
• William Gifford Palgrave, English scholar and essayist
• John Sands, Scottish journalist, humorist and travel writer
• M. A. Sherring, English ethnologist and historian
• Eliza Sproat Turner, American journalist and publisher
• Fyodor Stellovsky, Russian publisher and editor
• Adèle Toussaint-Samson, French travel writer
• Louise Westergaard, Danish journalist and translator
• Probable year of birth – Selim Aga, Sudanese-Liberian autobiographer and poet

  Deaths

January–June

• c. January – Alecu Beldiman, Moldavian poet-chronicler and translator
• January 3 – Nikolay Rumyantsev, Russian politician and scholar
• January 5 – William C. Somerville, American diplomat and historian
• January 6 – John Farey Sr., English polymath
• January 16 – John Rudolph Sutermeister, Curaçao-born American poet
• January 20 – Stanisław Staszic, Polish polymath
• January 24 – Yousab El Abah, Egyptian Coptic theologian
• January 31 – Étienne-François de Lantier, French poet and playwright
• February 17 – Johann Philipp Gabler, German Protestant theologian
• February 3 – Joseph Servières, French playwright
• February 20 – Avram Mrazović, Serbian-Austrian translator and textbook writer
• March 5 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and art historian
• March 16 – Johann Severin Vater, German theologian and philologist
• March 24 – Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, Danish music historian and biographer
• March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet and translator
• April 13 – Pierre-François-Joseph Robert, French journalist, jurist and politician
• April 20 – Waller Rodwell Wright, English diplomat and poet
• April 21 – Reginald Heber, English poet and travel writer
• April 25 – William Smith Shaw, American librarian
• April 27
• *Elazar Fleckeles, Moravian Jewish Orthodox theologian
• *Charles Symmons, Welsh poet, playwright and Anglican theologian
• May 2 – Antoni Malczewski, Polish poet
• May 17 – August Adolph von Hennings, German and Danish essayist and historian
• May 19 – Jean Skipwith, American book collector
• June 3
• * – Nikolay Karamzin, Russian poet and historian
• *William Hamilton Reid, English poet, editor and polemicist
• June 9
• *Johann Kaspar Friedrich Manso, German historian and philologist
• *Jedidiah Morse, American geographer and textbook writer
• June 19 – Elsa Fougt, Swedish editor and publisher
• June 26 – Johanna Elisabeth Swaving, Dutch newspaper editor, publisher and actress
• June 23 – John Taylor, English poet and songwriter
• June 27
• *Shaykh Ahmad, Arab Shia theologian
• *Mary Leadbeater, Irish poet and diarist

  July–December

• July 4 – Thomas Jefferson, American philosopher and politician
• July 5
• *Stamford Raffles, British colonial administrator and historian
• *Karl Friedrich Stäudlin, German Protestant theologian
• *Jane Watts, Scottish painter and travel writer
• July 20 – Gamaliel Smethurst, Nova Scotian memoirist
• July 25 – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary
• August 10
• *Vasily Lyovshin, Russian novelist and essayist
• *August Schumann, German bookseller and publisher
• August 26 – Royall Tyler, American playwright, poet and essayist
• August 31 – John Raithby, English legal scholar and editor
• September 22 – Johann Peter Hebel, German short story writer and poet
• Before October – Elizabeth Meeke, English popular novelist
• October 3
• *Jens Baggesen, Danish poet and satirist
• *Stanisław Bohusz Siestrzeńcewicz, Belarusian Catholic bishop and historian
• October 9 – John Williams, Welsh schoolmaster and manuscript collector
• October 19 – François-Joseph Talma, French actor
• November 1 – William Barnes Rhodes, English poet, translator and book collector
• November 26 – John Nichols, English antiquary and printer
• December – William Glen, Scottish poet
• December 16 – Siegfried August Mahlmann, German poet and editor
• December 18 – Iolo Morganwg, Welsh poet and literary forger
• December 22
• *John Haywood, American historian
• *Michael Massey Robinson, Australian poet
• December 28 – Schack von Staffeldt, Danish poet
• December 31 – William Gifford, English satirist and editor

  Unknown dates

• Jacob ben Abraham Kahana, Lithuanian Jewish theologian
• Menachem Mendel Lefin, Podolian Jewish theologian, translator and essayist
• Caroline Lewenhaupt, Swedish courtier and poet
• Mustafa Râkim, Ottoman calligrapher
• Léonard Tousez, French actor and playwright

  In literature

• Honoré de Balzac – Le Curé de Tours