This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1812.
Children and young people
Johann David Wyss – The Swiss Family Robinson
Barbara Hofland – The Son of a Genius
Joanna Baillie – Orra
Theodor Körner
Die Braut ("The Bride")
Der grüne Domino (The Green Domino)
Der Nachtwächter (The Night Watchman)
Adam Oehlenschläger – Stærkodder
August von Kotzebue – Der arme Poet (The Poor Poet)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Devil's Walk: A Ballad
James and Horace Smith (anonymously) – Rejected Addresses
William Tennant – Anster Fair
John Galt – Cursory Reflections on Political and Commercial Topics
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Die objektive Logik
Sir Richard Colt Hoare – The Ancient History of South Wiltshire
Mirza Abu Taleb Khan – Masir Talib fi Bilad Afranji (The Travels of Taleb in the Regions of Europe)
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale – The Depreciation of the Paper-currency of Great Britain Proved
John Nichols – The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, volume 1
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Declaration of Rights
February 7 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and editor (died 1870)
February 19 – Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet (died 1859)
May 7 – Robert Browning, English poet (died 1889)
May 12 – Edward Lear, English humorous poet (died 1888)
June 9 – Camilla Dufour Crosland, English writer and poet (died 1895)
June 18 – Ivan Goncharov Russian novelist and critic (died 1891)
July 5 – Antonio García Gutiérrez, Spanish dramatist (died 1884)
August 22 – Geraldine Jewsbury, English novelist and woman of letters (died 1880)
October 29 – Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (died 1907)
December 23 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish self-help author (died 1904)
February 13 – Jacques Marie Boutet, French dramatist and actor (born 1745)
February 24 – Hugo Kołłątaj, Polish historian and philosopher (born 1750)
March 18 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (born 1736)
March 24 – Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)
May 12 – Martha Ballard, American diarist (born c. 1734)
July 14 – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)
October 28 – Susanna Duncombe, English poet and painter (born 1725)
November 11 – Platon Levshin, Russian church historian (born 1737)
November 16 – John Walter, English founder of The Times, London (born c. 1738)
December 22 – Pierre Henri Larcher, French classicist and archeologist (born 1726)
Unknown date – Zalkind Hourwitz, Polish essayist (born 1738)
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