1833 in Germany explained

Events from the year 1833 in Germany

Incumbents

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)^[1]
• Kingdom of Bavaria
  • Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
• Kingdom of Saxony
  • Anthony (5 May 1827 – 6 June 1836)
• Kingdom of Hanover
  • William IV (26 June 1830 to 1837)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
  • William (1816–1864)

Events

• 6 February – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King of Greece, Prince of Bavaria.
• 6 May – Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.
• 14 December – Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious German youth, is stabbed, dying three days later on 17 December.

Date unknown

• The dawn of biochemistry: The first enzyme, diastase, is discovered by Anselme Payen.

Births

• 5 January – Eugene W. Hilgard, German-American "Father of soil science" (d. 1916)
• 28 February – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)
• 5 May – Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician (d. 1902)
• 7 May – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)^[2]

• 3 August – Auguste Schmidt, German educator, women's rights activist (d. 1902)
• 25 December – Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1916)

Deaths

• 16 January – Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer (b. 1769)
• 16 October – Meno Haas, German-born copperplate engraver (b. 1752)
• 17 December – Kaspar Hauser, German youth of uncertain origin (stabbed) (b. 1812?)^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frederick William III. 30 July 2018. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
2. Book: Becker, Heinz. Heinz Becker (musicologist). 1980. Brahms, Johannes. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Stanley Sadie. 3. 154–190. London. Macmillan. 978-0-333-23111-1.
3. Walther Schreibmüller: Bilanz einer 150jährigen Kaspar Hauser-Forschung, in: Genealogisches Jahrbuch 31, 1991, pp. 43–84