1847 in Germany
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Events from the year 1847 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Ludwig I.
- King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
- King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
Event
- October 12 – German inventors and industrialists Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske found Siemens & Halske to develop the electrical telegraph.
Births
Paul von Hindenburg - February 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
- March 27 – -Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
- July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter, printmaker (d. 1935)
- July 25 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (d. 1888)
- October 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal, President of Germany (d. 1934)
Deaths
- May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist (b. 1805)[1]
- July 16 – Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist (b. 1776)
- October 22 – Henriette Herz, German salonnière (b. 1764)
- November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
References
- ^ Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Belknap Press. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-67400-084-1.
