Literature year 1881

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Events

prose

• July 7th : In Rome, the first story about The Adventures of Pinocchio , written by Carlo Collodi, appears in a weekly newspaper entitled Le Avventure Di Pinocchio: Storia Di Un Burattino .

Title page of the French original edition

• 22 July / November 10 : The novel La Jangada of Jules Verne published in two volumes.
• The novel The Portrait of a Lady ( Portrait of a Lady ) by Henry James appears for the first time in book form.
• The novella Das Haus Tellier by Guy de Maupassant appears for the first time under the title La Maison Tellier by Paul Ollendorff in Paris.
• The unfinished novel Bouvard et Pécuche ( Bouvard and Pécuchet ) by Gustave Flaubert appears one year after Flaubert's death.
• By E. Marlitt the novel appears bailiff's maid .

drama

• The Norwegian Henrik Ibsen writes the play Ghosts. A family drama in three acts .

Scientific works

Title page of the first edition

• October 10 : The first edition of the work The Formation of Vegetable Mold through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits ( The Formation of Vegetable Mold Through the Action of Worms ) by Charles Darwin appears. With this book, Darwin concludes his decades of studies on the interrelationships between earthworms and soil conditions and on the behavior of these animals.

Others

• Pope Leo XIII. makes the Vatican Secret Archives accessible to scholars.

Born

• January 7th : Henrik Galeen , German screenwriter, director and actor († 1949 )
• January 9 : Lascelles Abercrombie , British poet and literary scholar († 1938 )
• January 25 : Emil Ludwig , German writer († 1948 )
• January 26 : Alfons Paquet , German journalist, writer and poet († 1944 )
• January 28 : Siegfried Jacobsohn , German journalist and theater critic († 1926 )

• February 11 : Carlo Carrà , Italian painter and art writer († 1966 )
• February 13 : Eleanor Farjeon , British children's author, poet and playwright († 1965 )
• February 19 : Paul Zech , German writer and publicist of Expressionism († 1946 )
• February 24 : Gustav Hillard , German writer, dramaturge and critic († 1972 )
• February 26 : Janus Djurhuus , Faroese poet († 1948 )

• March 6 : John Cournos , American writer and translator († 1966 )
• March 23 : Roger Martin du Gard , French writer († 1958 )

• April 1 : Octavian Goga , Romanian poet, playwright and politician († 1938 )
• April 1 : Wilhelm Sollmann , German journalist and politician († 1951 )
• April 4 : Marie Madeleine von Puttkamer , German writer († 1944 )
• April 17 : Anton Wildgans , Austrian playwright and poet († 1932 )
• April 19 : Hans Löscher (own Gustav Robert Löscher), German writer and teacher († 1946 )
• April 24 : Jakob Kneip , German homeland poet in the Hunsrück († 1958 )
• April 24 : Paul Merker , German literary historian († 1945 )

• May 12 : Achmed Abdullah , American writer and screenwriter of Russian origin († 1945 )
• May 15 : Hugo Zuckermann , German writer and Zionist († 1914 )

• June 9 : Felix Graf von Luckner , German navigator and writer († 1966 )

• July 7 : Josef Winckler , German writer († 1966 )
• July 12 : Franz Schrönghamer-Heimdal , German local poet († 1962 )
• July 12 : Ludwig Rubiner , German poet, literary critic and essayist († 1920 )
• July 19 : Friedrich Dessauer , German physicist, entrepreneur and publicist († 1963 )
• July 26 : Osanai Kaoru , Japanese playwright, translator and theater director († 1928 )

• August 1 : Aizu Yaichi , Japanese literary scholar and poet († 1956 )
• August 10 : Witter Bynner , American poet († 1968 )
• August 29 : Valery Larbaud , French writer and literary critic († 1957 )

• September 25 : Lu Xun , Chinese writer († 1936 )

• October 9 : Victor Klemperer , German writer and literary scholar († 1960 )
• October 15 : PG Wodehouse , British writer († 1975 )
• October 22 : Johannes Freumbichler , Austrian homeland writer († 1949 )
• October 30 : Lena Christ , German (Bavarian) native writer († 1920 )

• November 8th : Jacob Fleck , Austrian film pioneer, screenwriter, director, producer († 1953 )
• November 28 : Stefan Zweig , Austrian writer († 1942 )

• December 8 : Albert Gleizes , French painter and writer († 1953 )
• December 8 : Padraic Colum , Irish writer († 1972 )
• December 24 : Juan Ramón Jiménez , Spanish poet, prose writer and Nobel Prize winner († 1958 )
• December 24th : Otto Lukas , German teacher, poet and writer († 1956 )
• December 31 : Jacob Israël de Haan , Dutch author, lawyer and journalist († 1924 )

Died

• February 9 : Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Russian writer (* 1821 )
• February 27 : Peter Joseph Rottmann , German (Hunsrück) dialect poet (* 1799 )
• March 26 : Florian Ceynowa , Kashubian writer and civil rights activist (* 1817 )
• April 27 : Émile de Girardin , French publisher (* 1806 )
• May 26 : Jacob Bernays , German philologist and philosophical writer (* 1824 )
• August 2 : Marcus Clarke , Australian writer (* 1846 )
• September 7 : Sidney Lanier , American poet (* 1842 )
• September 9 : Christian Friedrich Scherenberg , German poet (* 1798 )
• September 29 : Jakob Løkke , Norwegian philologist and textbook author (* 1829 )
• November 14 : Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme , German politician, lawyer and writer (* 1798 )

Web links

Portal: Literature  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of literature

Commons : 1881 books  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : 1881 magazines  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : 1881 newspapers  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Digitized newspapers from 1881 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library
• Austrian newspapers from 1881 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library