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