Literature year 1888

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Literature year 1888
Theodor Fontane's novel Irrungen, Wirrungen is published.
Oscar Wilde publishes the fairy tale collection The Happy Prince and Other Tales .	Henrik Ibsen's play Fruen fra havet is published by Gyldendalske Boghandel .

Events

prose

March 15 : Under the influence of the Great Snowstorm of 1888 , the Cuban writer José Martí writes the experience report Nueva York bajo la nieve ( New York under the snow ), which is published on April 27 in the Argentine magazine La Nación .

Title page of the first edition, 1888

April: Three months before his death, Theodor Storm publishes the novella Der Schimmelreiter , which he completed in February after two years of work.
May: Oscar Wilde published the collection of fairy tales The Happy Prince and Other Tales ( The Happy Prince and Other Tales ). Wildes work with the art fairy tales The Happy Prince , The Nightingale and the Rose , The Selfish Giant and others contains illustrations by Walter Crane .

Cover picture of the French original edition with an illustration by Léon Benett

June 18 : The first volume of the adventure novel Deux ans de vacances ( Two Years of Holidays ) by Jules Verne is published by Hetzel-Verlag . The second volume will be released on November 8th .

August / September: The short story Der Pfarrersbub by Peter Rosegger appears.

Theodor Fontane's novel Irrungen, Wirrungen is published as a book edition by FW Steffens in Leipzig.
Rudyard Kipling publishes the story The Man Who Wanted to Be King .
The American journalist Nellie Bly publishes the travelogue Six Months in Mexico .

drama

November 28th : The play Fruen fra havet ( The Woman from the Sea ) by the Norwegian poet Henrik Ibsen in Munich is published by Gyldendalske Boghandel in Copenhagen and Kristiania.

The Swedish playwright August Strindberg wrote the tragedy Fröken Julie ( Fräulein Julie ).

Travel literature

Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles Montagu Doughty

Periodicals

The gazebo 1888

Scientific works

philosophy

Friedrich Nietzsche makes extensive notes for his planned work The Will to Power , which he gives up in the summer.

September 30th : Nietzsche finishes work on his work The Antichrist in Turin .

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the works Götzen-Twilight or How to philosophize with the hammer , Nietzsche contra Wagner and Der Fall Wagner .

Nietzsche starts working on Ecce Homo . In all of these late works he continues the concept of revaluing all values .

physics

December 13 : Heinrich Hertz informs the Berlin Academy of Sciences about the existence of electromagnetic waves in his report On Rays of Electric Power . His discovery provided the decisive impetus for developments in the direction of wireless telegraphy and broadcasting .

religion

June 24th : Pope Leo XIII. advises the Irish through the bishops in the encyclical Saepe nos on obedience, justice and legal action in times of upheaval in Ireland .

December 10th : In the encyclical Quam aerumnosa , Pope Leo XIII worries . about the Italian immigrants in America. A shortage of priests and language problems could have repercussions on the giving of the sacraments . Sent clergy from Italy are supposed to remedy the bottleneck.

Born

First half of the year

January 1 : Eduard Bass , Czech writer and actor († 1946 )
January 20 : Tryggve Gran , Norwegian pilot, explorer and author († 1980 )
January 24th : Vicki Baum , Austrian harpist and writer († 1960 )
February 10 : Giuseppe Ungaretti , Italian writer († 1970 )
February 17 : Hans Blüher , German writer and philosopher († 1955 )
February 20 : Georges Bernanos , French writer († 1948 )
February 26 : Maria Grengg , Austrian narrator and painter († 1963 )
February 29 : Herbert Ihering , German theater critic († 1977 )

March 5 : Ramón Otero Pedrayo , Spanish-Galician writer († 1976 )
March 5 : Friedrich Schnack , German poet († 1977 )
March 13 : Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko , Soviet pedagogue and writer († 1939 )
March 16 : Lenka von Koerber , German journalist († 1958 )
March 20 : Siegfried von Vegesack , German writer († 1974 )
March 21 : Franz Koch , German-Austrian Germanist and literary historian († 1969 )

April 2 : Marietta Shaginjan , Soviet writer († 1982 )
April 6 : Dan Andersson , Swedish working-class poet and lyric poet († 1920 )
April 9 : Anatoly Vinogradov , Soviet-Russian writer († 1946 )
April 18 : Arnold Lunn , British ski pioneer, mountaineer and writer († 1974 )

May 1 : Jan Morávek , Czech writer and journalist († 1958 )
May 12 : Egmont Colerus , Austrian writer († 1939 )
May 24 : Walter Hammer , German writer and publisher († 1966 )
May 24 : Walter Hösterey , German publisher and writer († 1966 )
May 24 : Alex Osborn , American author († 1966 )

June 2 : Hans Karl Breslauer , Austrian film director and writer († 1965 )
June 5 : Max Picard , Swiss doctor and writer († 1965 )
June 10 : Leo Weismantel , German writer († 1964 )
June 13 : Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese poet and writer († 1935 )
June 14 : Jacques de Lacretelle , French writer († 1985 )
June 18 : Walter von Sanden-Guja , German writer, naturalist and poet († 1972 )
June 22nd : Alan Seeger , American poet
June 25 : Tami Oelfken , German writer and reform pedagogue († 1957 )
June 28 : Alfons von Czibulka , Austrian writer and painter († 1969 )

Second half of the year

July 3 : Ramón Gómez de la Serna , Spanish writer († 1963 )
July 14 : Satomi Ton , Japanese writer († 1983 )
July 17 : Milán Füst , Hungarian writer († 1967 )
July 17 : Samuel Agnon , Israeli writer († 1970 )
July 23 : Raymond Chandler , American crime novelist († 1959 )
July 26 : Marcel Jouhandeau , French writer († 1979 )
August 6 : Nagayo Yoshirō , Japanese writer († 1961 )

September 3 : Hans Friedrich Blunck , German lawyer and writer († 1961 )
September 16 : Til Brugman , Dutch writer († 1958 )
September 16 : Frans Eemil Sillanpää , Finnish writer († 1964 )
September 18 : Gray Owl , English writer († 1938 )
September 26 : Thomas Stearns Eliot , American poet, playwright and essayist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature († 1965 )

October 5 : Oskar Kanehl , German writer and editor († 1929 )
October 14 : Katherine Mansfield , British writer († 1923 )
October 15 : Willard Huntington Wright , American writer and art critic († 1939 )
October 16 : Eugene O'Neill , American playwright († 1953 )
October 21 : Richard Katz , German-Bohemian journalist and travel writer († 1968 )
October 30 : Marie Ulfers , German writer († 1960 )

November 17 : Curt Goetz , German writer and actor († 1960 )
November 24 : Dale Carnegie , American writer and personality trainer († 1955 )
November 26 : Franz Jung , German writer, economist and politician († 1963 )

December 23 : Friedrich Wolf , German doctor and writer († 1953 )
December 25 : Leivick Halpern , Yiddish-speaking poet († 1962 )
December 25 : Bernhard Marschall , German Catholic clergyman and journalist († 1963 )
December 27th : Thea von Harbou , German actress and author († 1954 )

Died

The grave of Auguste Maquet in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris

January 8 : Auguste Maquet , French writer (* 1813 )
January 21 : Adolph Douai , German-American journalist, publisher and educator (* 1819 )
January 22nd : Eugène Marin Labiche , French comedy poet (* 1815 )

Amos Bronson Alcott

March 4 : Amos Bronson Alcott , American writer and educator (* 1799 )
March 5 : Franz von Sonnenfeld , Swiss writer (* 1821 )
March 6 : Louisa May Alcott , American writer (* 1832 )
March 16 : Ludwig Steub , German writer (* 1812 )
March 18 : Charles Monselet , French writer, journalist, poet and librettist (* 1825 )
March 25 : Désiré Nisard , French literary historian (* 1806 )

April 15 : Matthew Arnold , English poet and cultural critic (* 1822 )
April 22 : Ferdinand Gustav Kühne , German writer and literary critic (* 1806 )

June 1 : Anton Sommer , German (Thuringian) dialect poet (* 1816 )
June 21 : Victoria Benedictsson , Swedish writer (* 1850 )

July 4th : Theodor Storm , German writer (* 1817 )
August 9 : Charles Cros , French poet and inventor (* 1842 )

November 18 : Nikolaus Delius , German Anglicist and Shakespeare researcher (* 1813 )
November 25 : Wilhelm Mohr , German journalist (* 1838 )

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