1847 in Germany
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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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