This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1801.
- Christoph von Schmid – Biblische Geschichte für Kinder (Bible Stories for Children)[8]
- Priscilla Wakefield – The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of a Family during a Tour through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe
- January 14 – Jane Welsh Carlyle, Scottish writer, wife of Thomas Carlyle (died 1866)[10]
- February 13 – János Kardos, Hungarian evangelical priest, teacher and writer (died 1875)
- 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 9 – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, Swedish novelist (died 1873)
- May 31 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and textual critic (died 1877)[11]
- June 24 – Caroline Clive, English writer (died 1873)[12]
- 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)[13]
- November 3 – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859)[14]
- 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)[15]
- 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)[16]
- December 12 – Edward Moxon, English poet and publisher (died 1858)
- unknown dates
- 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)[18]
- 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)[19]
- November 5 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar (born 1730)[20]
- December 25 – Hester Chapone, English writer of conduct books (born 1727)[21]
- ^ François-René de Chateaubriand (18 October 2012). Atala. René les Natchez. Le Livre de Poche. pp. 498–. ISBN 978-2-253-09467-8.
- ^ Charles Knight (1857). The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Biography. Bradbury & Evans. p. 2.
- ^ Das, Sisir Kumar (2006). "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910". A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910. Sahitya Akademi.
- ^ Thomas Roebuck (18 April 2013). The Annals of the College of Fort William: From the Period of Its Foundation to the Present Time. Cambridge University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-108-05604-5.
- ^ Ballinger, Gill (Winter 2013), "Austen's Bath and Bath's Jane", Persuasions On-line, vol. 34, no. 1, Jane Austen Society of North America, retrieved 2014-06-05
- ^ Jane Campbell (1 January 2006). The Retrospective Review (1820-1828) and the Revival of Seventeenth Century Poetry. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-0-88920-866-7.
- ^ Kamilla Elliott (19 October 2012). Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction: The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764–1835. JHU Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-4214-0717-3.
- ^ Walther Killy; Rudolf Vierhaus (30 November 2011). Plett - Schmidseder. Walter de Gruyter. p. 769. ISBN 978-3-11-096630-5.
- ^ A History of German Literature. Ardent Media. p. 311. GGKEY:WDSFB5WXYFD.
- ^ "Correspondence of Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866)". JISC Archives Hub. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baiter, Johann Georg" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ P. D. Edwards, "Clive , Caroline (1801–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 retrieved 20 Feb 2008
- ^ Helynne Hollstein Hansen, Hortense Allart : the woman and the novelist, Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1998. Page xix
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baedeker, Karl" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Bechstein, Ludwig" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Lob, Ladislaus (2015). Konzett, Matthias (ed.). Encyclopedia of German Literature. Routledge. pp. 362–3. ISBN 978-1135941222. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ Duzee, Edward P. Van (1902). Catalogue of Poetry in the English Language: In the Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, N.Y. (Public domain ed.). Grosvenor Library (London, England).
- ^ Tieck, Ludwig (2007) [1815]. "Ludwig Tieck "Biography of Novalis, 1815". In Donehower, Bruce (ed.). The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. pp. 126–136. ISBN 9780791480687.
- ^ Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Or, A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the Chief Officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: From the Earliest Time to Year MDCCXV. Oxford University Press. p. 585.
- ^ "本居宣長墓(樹敬寺)附 本居春庭墓" (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ^ Fanny Burney (1972). The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay) Volume V: West Humble and Paris, 1801-1803: Letters 423-549. Clarendon Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-19-812467-2.