1832

Events in 1832 13

• 1749 – 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer and statesman Goethe wrote Faust and shaped German literature through poetry, drama, and philosophical writings that defined European Romanticism.
• 1832 – 1883 Gustave Doré (1832-1883) Died 23 January 1883, aged 50 Doré was a French artist and illustrator famed for his engravings for the Bible, Dante's Inferno, and Don Quixote. His dramatic, densely detailed illustrations shaped the visual imagination of countless readers.
• 1832 – 1923 Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) Died 27 December 1923, aged 91 Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer best known for designing the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Paris World's Fair. He also engineered the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty and numerous bridges and viaducts. He died in Paris at age 91.
• 1832 – 1899 Horatio Alger (1832-1899) Died 18 July 1899, aged 67 American author known for dozens of rags-to-riches novels aimed at young readers, including Ragged Dick. His stories popularized the myth of upward mobility through hard work and virtue in Gilded Age America. He wrote more than 100 books over his career.
• 1832 – 1885 Jules Vallès (1832-1885) Died 14 February 1885, aged 52 French journalist and novelist who participated in the Paris Commune of 1871 and founded the newspaper Le Cri du Peuple. Known for his semi-autobiographical trilogy Jacques Vingtras, he spent years in exile in London before returning to France under a general amnesty in 1880.
• 1832 – 1898 Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Died 14 January 1898, aged 65 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writing as Lewis Carroll, was the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. He was also an Oxford mathematician and pioneering photographer. He died of pneumonia at his sisters' home in Guildford on 14 January 1898.
• 1832 – 1867 Maximilian I of Mexico (1832-1867) Executed 19 June 1867, aged 34 An Austrian archduke installed as Emperor of Mexico with French backing, Maximilian was captured after Napoleon III withdrew his troops and Mexican republican forces under Benito Juarez retook the country. He was tried by court-martial and executed by firing squad at Queretaro. His death ended the French intervention in Mexico and became the subject of Edouard Manet's famous painting.
• 1832 – 1908 Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) Died 9 January 1908, aged 75 Busch was a German humorist, poet, and illustrator whose illustrated verse tale "Max und Moritz" influenced the development of the comic strip. His darkly comic drawings and rhymes were hugely popular in Germany and inspired later cartoonists internationally. He spent his final years largely reclusive in Mechtshausen.
• 1832 – 1919 William Crookes (1832-1919) Died 4 April 1919, aged 86 Crookes was a British chemist and physicist who discovered the element thallium and developed the Crookes tube used in early cathode ray research. His work laid groundwork later used in the discovery of the electron and X-rays.
• 1832 – 1883 Édouard Manet Impressionism · France Édouard Manet (January 23, 1832 – April 30, 1883) was a French painter who bridged Realism and Impressionism. His Olympia and Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe caused scandal but opened the door to modern art.
• 1832 – 1862 Otto of Greece First King of modern Greece Otto became the first king of independent Greece after liberation from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1832 – 1888 Louisa May Alcott Author of Little Women American novelist, Civil War nurse, abolitionist and suffragist. Raised among the Concord Transcendentalists, she wrote thrillers under a pen name before Little Women made her one of the best-selling authors of her century.
• 1832 Louisa May Alcott born in Germantown Pennsylvania Louisa May Alcott is born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on her father Bronson Alcott's 33rd birthday — the second of four daughters.