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1838 in Germany
Events from the year
1838 in Germany
Incumbents
Kingdom of Prussia
Monarch âÂÂ
Frederick William III
(16 November 1798 â 7 June 1840)
Kingdom of Bavaria
Monarch -
Ludwig I
(1825âÂÂ1848)
Prime Minister âÂÂ
Karl von Abel
(1837âÂÂ1847)
Kingdom of Saxony
Frederick Augustus
(1836âÂÂ1854)
Kingdom of Hanover
âÂÂ
Ernest Augustus
(1837âÂÂ1851)
Kingdom of Württemberg
âÂÂ
William
(1816âÂÂ1864)
Events
Date unknown
Friedrich Bessel
makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a
star
.
Births
January 6
-
Max Bruch
, German composer (d.
1920
)
January 16
âÂÂ
Franz Brentano
, German philosopher, psychologist (d.
1917
)
June 24
âÂÂ
Gustav von Schmoller
, German economist (d.
1917
)
July 8
âÂÂ
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
, German military officer, founder of the Zeppelin Company (d.
1917
)
Deaths
February 24
âÂÂ
Christoph Johann von Medem
, German courtier (b.
1763
)
April 12
âÂÂ
Johann Adam Möhler
, German theologian (born
1796
)
June 14
âÂÂ
Maximilian von Montgelas
, Bavarian statesman (b.
1759
)
August 21
âÂÂ
Adelbert von Chamisso
, German writer (b.
1781
)
November 9
âÂÂ
Friedrich Carl Gröger
, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (born
1766
)
References
Bibliography