1834 in Germany explained

Events from the year 1834 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

• 1 January – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at borders within its member states.
• 12 November – The Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg loses its independence when the estates not bequeathed to princes Victor and Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst are reunited with Hesse-Kassel.^[2]
• 3 December – The Zollverein institutes the first regular census in Germany. The population is 23,478,120.

Publications

• Heinrich Heine – Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland (The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany)

Births

• 7 January – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist, inventor (d. 1874)
• 17 January – August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (d. 1914)
• 6 February – Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist who discovered Diphtheria (d. 1913)
• 9 February – Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912)
• 16 February – Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist, philosopher (d. 1919)
• 17 March – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer, inventor (d. 1900)
• 23 March – Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858)
• 9 May – Alexander Calandrelli, German sculptor (died 1903)
• 20 May – Albert Niemann, German chemist (d. 1861)
• 5 August – Ewald Hering (died 1918), German physiologist.
• 29 August – Hermann Sprengel (died 1906), German-born chemist.
• 15 September – Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (died 1896)
• 30 September – Carl Schorlemmer (died 1892), German organic chemist.
• 8 November – Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, German astrophysicist (d. 1882)
• 19 November – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
• 9 December – Leopold Müller, German-born Austrian painter (died 1892)

Deaths

• 12 February – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1768)
• 23 February – Karl Ludwig von Knebel, German poet (b. 1744)
• 26 February – Alois Senefelder, German actor, playwright and inventor of lithography (born 1771)
• 30 March – Rudolph Ackermann, Anglo-German entrepreneur (b. 1764)
• 31 March – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (born 1760)
• 8 September – Gustav Schübler, German naturalist (born 1787)
• 3 December – Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher (born 1764)
• 6 December – Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Prussian general (born 1782)^[3]
• 7 December – Ludwig Schuncke, composer (born 1810)^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frederick William III. 30 July 2018. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
2. Book: Köbler, Gerhard . 2007. Historisches Lexikon der Deutschen Länder: die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart . 7 . C.H.Beck . 978-3-406-54986-1 . 279.
3. Lützow, Adolf, Baron. 1905.
4. Book: Michael Schuncke. Ruskin Cooper. Joachim Draheim. Ludwig Schuncke (1810 - 1834) and His Piano Music. Fischer+Partner. 1997. 9783926435163. 89.