1847 in Germany

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

• February 4 – Remus von Woyrsch, German field marshal (d. 1920)
• 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)
• 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)

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