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| 1832 |
| | | The full text of Goethe's Faust, Parts 1 and 2, is published a few months after the poet's death | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Mary Anne Evans' translation from the German of David Friedrich Strauss's controversial Life of Jesus is published anonymously | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The first volume of Das Kapital is completed by Marx in London and is published in Hamburg | |
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| 1883 |
| | | In Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche envisages the Übermensch ('superman') enhancing human existence | |
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| 1884 |
| | | German mathematician Gottlob Frege publishes Grundlagen der Arithmetik ('Foundations of Arithmetic'), linking mathematics and logic | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Thomas Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks, brings him immediate success | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands, a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain | |
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| 1911 |
| | | In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapts the English medieval morality play Everyman ('Jedermann') for performance in Salzburg | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion has its first performance – in a German version in Vienna | |
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