Literature year 1887

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Literature year 1887
Oscar Wilde publishes his first short story, The Canterville Ghost .
Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first detective novel, A Study, in Scarlett .	The novel Noli me tangere by the later Filipino national hero José Rizal appears.

Events

prose

January 1. bis 1. December : The Roman North Contre Sud of Jules Verne appears as a serial story in the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation . The novel itself will be published in two volumes on May 26th and November 14th by Pierre-Jules Hetzel's publishing house in Paris.
February: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach publishes her main work, the novel Das Gemeindekind .

Front cover of the original French edition with an illustration by George Roux

October 3 : The novel Le Chemin de France ( The Road to France ) by the French author Jules Verne is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris. In the same volume there is also the short story Gil Braltar .
November: A Study in Scarlett ( A Study in Scarlet ), the first detective novel Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , appear in the magazine Beeton's Christmas Annual as a cover story. In it the detective Sherlock Holmes has his first appearance.

The story The Canterville Ghost ( The Canterville Ghost ) by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde appears in the London magazine The Court and Society Review - it is the first narrative work of the writer.
The novel Noli me tangere by the later Filipino national hero José Rizal appears. In it he denounces the injustices of the Catholic priests and the arbitrary rule of the Spanish colonial government.

Advertising poster for Die Erde from 1887

Émile Zola writes the novel La Terre ( The Earth ). It forms the fifteenth part of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle .

The story The Event in the Schrun by Peter Rosegger appears.

By Theodor Storm , the amendment appears a doppelganger in a book edition.

drama

November 14th : August Strindberg's drama Fadren ( The Father ) has its world premiere in Copenhagen.

Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov wrote the play Ivanov , originally as a comedy .

Periodicals

March 4 : When George Hearst takes office as Senator, he hands over the management of his newspaper The Daily Examiner to his son William Randolph Hearst , which he renames the San Francisco Examiner . The gradual development of a newspaper empire began.

March 22nd : The first edition of the daily El Espectador appears in Colombia , which is now the country's oldest newspaper.

The gazebo 1887

Scientific works

Title of the first edition

Friedrich Nietzsche publishes the philosophical work On the Genealogy of Morals .

religion

December 22nd : In the encyclical Officio sanctissimo , Pope Leo XIII expresses himself . about the Church in the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Others

“ First book ” on Esperanto, Warsaw 1887, Russian edition

July 26th : History of Esperanto : Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof in Warsaw publishes the textbook on his “International Language” under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto, first in Russian . Further brochures in other languages will follow soon. The pseudonym remains as the name of the language: Esperanto .
December 5 : The Bern Convention for the Protection of Works of Literature and Art comes into force in the German Reich.

Born

First half of the year

January 1 : Josef Opatoschu , Yiddish-American writer († 1954 )
January 10 : Robinson Jeffers , American poet, playwright and natural philosopher († 1962 )
January 11 : Juan Carlos Dávalos , Argentine writer († 1959 )
January 15 : Willy Seidel , German writer († 1934 )
January 16 : Kasai Zenzō , Japanese writer († 1928 )

Entrance door of Trakl's birthplace in Salzburg

February 3 : Georg Trakl , Austrian poet († 1914 )
February 5 : Albert Paris Gütersloh , Austrian painter and writer († 1973 )
February 8 : Heinrich Spoerl , German writer († 1955 )
February 11 : Origuchi Shinobu , Japanese writer and literary scholar († 1953 )
February 21 : Wilhelm Speyer , German writer († 1952 )
February 24 : Mary Ellen Chase , American writer († 1973 )

March 14 : Sylvia Beach , American bookseller and publisher († 1962 )
March 14 : Ernst Goll , Austrian poet († 1912 )
March 23 : Rudolf Kinau , Low German writer († 1975 )
March 25 : Geoffrey Keynes , British physician, scientist and bibliophile († 1982 )

April 22nd : James Norman Hall , American writer († 1951 )
May 1 : Vincenzo Cardarelli , Italian journalist, writer and poet († 1959 )
May 3 : Wilhelm Ackermann , German journalist († 1959 )
May 9 : Jan Morávek , Czech historian and archivist († 1960 )
May 12 : Jean-Charles Roman d'Amat , French archivist and paleographer († 1976 )
May 16 : Jakob van Hoddis , German poet († 1942 )

Forsthaus Kleinort, birthplace of Ernst Wiechert

May 18 : Ernst Wiechert , Swiss writer († 1950 )
May 22 : Arthur Cravan , British poet and amateur boxer († 1918 )
May 24th : Hermann Aellen , Swiss writer and journalist († 1939 )
May 31 : Saint-John Perse , French poet and diplomat († 1975 )

June 8 : Bruno Peyn , German writer († 1970 )
June 13 : Bruno Frank , German writer († 1945 )
June 18 : Marcet Haldeman , American author († 1941 )
June 22nd : Julian Huxley , English biologist, philosopher and writer († 1975 )
June 23 : Ernst Rowohlt , German publisher († 1960 )
June 25 : George Abbott , American screenwriter, director and actor († 1995 )

Second half of the year

July 2 : Elisabeth Baumann-Schlachter , Swiss writer († 1941 )
July 6 : Walter Flex , German poet († 1917 )
July 12 : Robert Bürkner , German actor, theater director, director and author († 1962 )
July 27 : Yamamoto Yūzō , Japanese writer († 1974 )

August 15 : Stanley Vestal , American writer, poet and historian († 1957 )
August 17 : Marcus Garvey , Jamaican journalist († 1940 )
August 18 : Alma Johanna Koenig , Austrian poet and narrator
August 18 : Hermann Finsterlin , German architect, painter, poet and composer († 1973 )
August 26 : Carl Boese , German film director, actor and author († 1958 )

September 1 : Blaise Cendrars , French author († 1961 )
September 7th : Edith Sitwell , British writer († 1964 )
September 12 : Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli , Azerbaijani writer and statesman († 1943 )
September 12 : Auguste Lazar , Austrian writer († 1970 )
September 15 : Carlos Dávila , Chilean politician, diplomat and journalist († 1955 )
September 19 : Erwein Freiherr von Aretin , German journalist and local politician († 1952 )

October 12 : Paula von Preradović , Austrian writer († 1951 )
October 15 : Fernán Silva Valdés , Uruguayan writer († 1975 )
October 22 : John Reed , American journalist († 1920 )
October 30 : Georg Heym , German writer († 1912 )

November 4 : Štefan Lux , Czechoslovak artist and journalist († 1936 )
November 10 : Arnold Zweig , German writer († 1968 )
November 14 : Lajos Áprily , Hungarian poet and translator († 1967 )
November 15 : Marianne Moore , American writer († 1972 )

December 6 : Minakami Takitarō , Japanese writer († 1940 )
December 17 : Josef Lada , Czech illustrator and children's book author († 1957 )
December 19 : August Abel , German politician and journalist († 1962 )
December 23 : Thomas Otto Hermannus Achelis , German high school teacher, historian and author († 1967 )

Died

February 19 : Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch writer (* 1820 )
March 8 : Paul Féval , French writer (* 1816 )
March 19 : Józef Ignacy Kraszewski , Polish writer (* 1812 )

April 2 : Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme , German writer, local poet and botanist (* 1827 )
April 18 : Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German officer and writer (* 1848 )

June 22nd : E. Marlitt , German writer (* 1825 )
September 13 : Eugène Jouve , French journalist, travel writer and war correspondent (* 1813 )
September 14 : Friedrich Theodor Vischer , German writer and politician (* 1807 )
October 27 : Karl Goedeke , German literary historian (* 1814 )

November 6th : Eugène Pottier , French poet (* 1816 )
November 11 : August Spies , German-American editor and publisher (* 1855 )
November 19 : Emma Lazarus , American poet (* 1849 )
December 23 : Leonard Sowiński , Polish poet and literary historian (* 1831 )

Web links

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