1888 in literature

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Events

Prose

• April: Theodor Storm released three months before his death, the novella The Ghost Rider, which he completed in February after two years of work.

• Mai: Oscar Wilde published the collection of fairy tales The Happy Prince and Other Tales ( The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales ). Wilde's work with the literary fairy tale The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant and other containing illustrations by Walter Crane.

• Theodor Fontane's novel Trials and Tribulations will be published in a book edition were published by FW Steffens in Leipzig.
• Rudyard Kipling published the story of the man who wanted to be king.
• The American journalist Nellie Bly published the travelogue Six Months in Mexico.

Drama

• November 28: The authored by the Norwegian poet Henrik Ibsen in drama Munich Lady from havet ( The Lady from the Sea ) is published by Gyldendal in Copenhagen and Christiania.
• The Swedish playwright August Strindberg wrote the tragedy Fröken Julie (Miss Julie ).

Periodicals

Scientific works

Philosophy

• Friedrich Nietzsche makes extensive records of his planned work The Will to Power, which, however, he gives up in the summer.
• September 30: Nietzsche completed in Turin the work on his book The Antichrist.
• Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the works of Twilight of the Idols or How to philosophize with a hammer, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and The Case of Wagner.
• Nietzsche begins work at Ecce Homo. In all of these late works he continues the concept of the revaluation of all values ​​.

Physics

Religion

• June 24: Pope Leo XIII. advises on the bishops in the encyclical Saepe nos Irish to obedience, justice and legally practice in Ireland circulation times.
• December 10: In the encyclical Quam aerumnosa Pope Leo XIII provides. to the Italian immigrants in America. Shortage of priests and language problems could have repercussions on the giving of the sacraments. Seconded clergy from Italy seeks to remedy this bottleneck.

Born

First half year

Second half- year

• July 8: 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, U.S. detective writer († 1959)
• JULY 26: Marcel Jouhandeau, French writer († 1979)
• August 6: Nagayo Yoshirō, Japanese writer († 1961)
• September 3: Hans Friedrich Blunck, German jurist and writer († 1961)
• September 16 Til Brugman, Dutch writer († 1958)
• SEPTEMBER 16: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer († 1964)
• September 18: Grey Owl, English writer († 1938)
• September 26: Thomas Stearns Eliot, American poet, dramatist and essayist, Nobel Prize for Literature († 1965)
• OCTOBER 5: Oskar Kanehl, German writer and publisher († 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)
• November 11: Stefan Lux, Czechoslovakian artist and journalist († 1936)
• November 21: Richard Katz, German - Bohemian journalist and travel writer († 1968)
• 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 physician and writer († 1953)
• December 25: Leivick Halpern, jidischsprachiger poet († 1962)
• December 25: Bernhard Marschall, German Catholic priest and journalist († 1963)
• December 27: Thea von Harbou, German actress and author († 1954)

Died

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

• 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: Louis Steub, German writer (* 1812)
• MARCH 18: Charles Monselet, French writer, journalist, poet and librettist (* 1825)
• March 25: Désiré Nisard, French literature 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)
• 21 June: Victoria Benedictsson, Swedish writer (* 1850)
• JULY 4: Theodor Storm, German writer (* 1817)
• August 9: Charles Cros, French poet and inventor (* 1842)
• November 18: Nikolaus Delius, German Anglist and Shakespeare scholar (* 1813)
• November 25: Wilhelm Mohr, German journalist (* 1838)