Gérard de Nerval, translator, Faust, translation into French from the original German of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's long poem; the work earned Nerval his reputation; it was praised by Goethe, and Hector Berlioz later used sections for his legend-symphony La Damnation de Faust
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March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828)