Literature year 1893

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Literature year 1893
The novel The Foundling by Jules Verne is published.	The first three volumes of Winnetou by Karl May appear.

Events

prose

October 2 / November 20 : Jules Verne's novel P'tit-Bonhomme ( The Findling ) is published in two volumes.

The first three volumes of Winnetou by Karl May appear.
The stories Adam das Dirndl , Jung Hanele, die Trutzige and Kaderl, the evil person by Peter Rosegger appear.
Rafael Delgado writes the novel Angelina .

drama

April 19 : Oscar Wilde's comedy A Woman of No Importance has its world premiere at the Theater Royal Haymarket in London.
May 16 : The play Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck is premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris. It is considered the main work of the theater of symbolism .

Title page of the original edition

The play Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler will be premiered. The work, to which Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote an introduction under a pseudonym, earned Schnitzler the title "psychological depth researcher" by Sigmund Freud .

Periodicals

The gazebo 1893

Jerome K. Jerome founds the moderately successful To-Day magazine .

religion

September 8th : Pope Leo XIII. is expressed in the encyclical Laetitiae sanctae on the rosary and the right order of the human social community .
November 18 : In the published encyclical Providentissimus Deus , Leo XIII. for the first time a Pope position on biblical studies .

Born

January to July

January 3 : Pierre Drieu la Rochelle , French writer († 1945 )
January 10 : Vicente Huidobro , Chilean poet († 1948 )
January 13 : Clark Ashton Smith , American poet, sculptor, painter and author († 1961 )
January 19 : Johannes Dieckmann , German journalist and politician († 1969 )
January 31 : Freya Madeline Stark , English explorer and travel writer († 1993 )

February 23 : Anton Betz , German journalist († 1984 )
March 1 : Mercedes de Acosta , American writer, fashion designer († 1968 )
March 1 : Edlef Köppen , German writer and radio editor († 1939 )
March 7th : Friedrich Märker , German writer and publicist († 1985 )

April 16 : Friedrich Franz von Unruh , German writer († 1986 )
May 3 : Konstantine Gamsachurdia , Georgian writer († 1975 )
May 5 : Joseph Maria Lutz , German writer († 1972 )
May 18 : Friedrich Sieburg , German journalist, writer and literary critic († 1964 )
May 28 : Mina Witkojc , Sorbian poet and publicist († 1975 )

June 3 : Hermann Buddensieg , German writer, editor and translator († 1976 )
June 5 : Albert Mähl , German writer and journalist († 1970 )
June 9 : Samuel Nathaniel Behrman , American writer († 1973 )
June 13 : Dorothy L. Sayers , English crime novelist and translator († 1957 )
June 23 : Frank Dalby Davison , Australian writer († 1970 )
June 30th : Horst Wolfram Geißler , German writer († 1983 )

July 1 : Shishi Bunroku , Japanese writer († 1969 )
July 8 : Kay Glasson Taylor , Australian writer († 1998 )
July 19 : Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky , Russian poet († 1930 )
July 21 : Hans Fallada , German socially critical writer († 1947 )
July 28 : Meinrad Inglin , Swiss writer († 1971 )
July 29 : Josef Papesch , Austrian writer and cultural politician († 1968 )

August to December

August 1st : Anton Wurzer , German dialect poet († 1955 )
August 12 : Edwin Bauersachs , German dialect poet († 1948 )
August 22 : Dorothy Parker , American writer († 1967 )
August 27 : Victor Heerman , American director and screenwriter († 1977 )

September 8 : Erik Reger , German writer († 1954 )
September 10 : Fritz Fink , German writer, bookseller and local history researcher († 1945 )
September 22 : Hans Leip , German poet, writer († 1983 )

October 9 : Mário Raúl de Morais Andrade , Brazilian writer and poet († 1945 )
October 10 : Mela Spira , Austrian actress and writer († 1967 )
October 12 : Matthias Joseph Mehs , German politician and local writer († 1976 )
October 13 : Hans Severus Ziegler , German publicist, artistic director, teacher and Nazi official († 1978 )
October 20 : Lyman Young , American cartoonist and comic artist († 1984 )
October 24 : Kurt Huber , German professor, folk song researcher, member of the White Rose († 1943 )
October 26 : Miloš Crnjanski , Hungarian poet, storyteller, travel writer and playwright († 1977 )
October 28 : Karl Farkas , Austrian actor and cabaret artist († 1971 )

November 3 : Carl Stephenson , Austrian-German author and publisher († 1954 )
November 10 : John Phillips Marquand , American writer († 1960 )
November 15 : Carlo Emilio Gadda , Italian writer († 1973 )
November 17 : Max Barthel , German writer († 1975 )
November 25 : Wendelin Überzwerch , German writer († 1962 )

December 1 : Ernst Toller , German politician, revolutionary and writer († 1939 )
December 20 : Stephen Morehouse Avery , American screenwriter († 1948 )
December 20 : Wilhelm Hollbach , German politician and journalist († 1962 )
December 21 : Anton Dietzenschmidt , German playwright († 1955 )
December 26 : Elisabet van Randenborgh , German writer († 1983 )

Died

January 22nd : Kawatake Mokuami , Japanese Kabuki author (* 1816 )
March 5 : Hippolyte Taine , French critic and historian (* 1828 )

May 1 : Alexander Kaufmann , German writer (* 1817 )
May 27 : Joseph Stöckle , German writer and philologist (* 1844 )

Guy de Maupassant's grave on the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris

July 6 : Guy de Maupassant , French writer and poet (* 1850 )
July 25 : Paul d'Abrest , Bohemian writer (* 1850 )
September 25 : Louise von François , German writer (* 1817 )

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