author
August Niemann
1839–1919
A German writer, editor, and former military officer, August Niemann turned his interest in history and strategy into military studies, adventure fiction, and imaginative future-war novels. His best-known work, The Coming Conquest of England, offers a striking early vision of a worldwide conflict.
3 Audiobooks
The Coming Conquest of England
by August Niemann
Pieter Maritz, der Buernsohn von Transvaal
by August Niemann
Der Weltkrieg, Deutsche Träume: Roman
by August Niemann
About the author
August Wilhelm Otto Niemann was born in Hanover on June 27, 1839, and died in Dresden on September 17, 1919. He worked as a writer, editor, private tutor, and captain, publishing under his own name and the pseudonym A. Ferrari.
From 1869 to 1889, Niemann was an editor at the Justus Perthes publishing house, where he contributed to major reference works including the Almanach de Gotha. He later wrote military works, novels, youth literature, and adventure stories, including Catharina, Eine Emancipirte, and Pieter Maritz.
His 1904 novel Der Weltkrieg – Deutsche Träume, translated into English as The Coming Conquest of England, imagined a future global war involving Germany, France, Russia, and Britain. He also explored fantastic travel in Aetherio, eine Planetenfahrt, which sends its protagonists to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and the Hollow Earth.