1838 in Germany
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Events from the year 1838 in Germany
Incumbents
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch â Frederick William III (16 November 1798 â 7 June 1840)[1]
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Monarch - Ludwig I (1825â1848)
- Prime Minister â Karl von Abel (1837â1847)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus (1836â1854)
- Kingdom of Hanoverâ Ernest Augustus (1837â1851)[2]
- Kingdom of Württemberg â William (1816â1864)
Events
Date unknown
- Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
Births
- January 6- Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
- January 16 â Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist (d. 1917)
- June 24 â Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (d. 1917)
- July 8 â Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer, founder of the Zeppelin Company (d. 1917)
Deaths
- February 24 â Christoph Johann von Medem, German courtier (b. 1763)
- April 12 â Johann Adam Möhler, German theologian (born 1796)
- June 14 â Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman (b. 1759)
- August 21 â Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
- November 9 â Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (born 1766)