1838 in Germany
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Incumbents
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1798 – 7 June 1840)[1]
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
- Prime Minister – Karl von Abel (1837–1847)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus (1836–1854)
- Kingdom of Hanover– Ernest Augustus (1837–1851)[2]
- Kingdom of Württemberg – William (1816–1864)
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 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist (d. 1917)
- June 24 – Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (d. 1917)
- July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer, founder of the Zeppelin Company (d. 1917)
Deaths
- February 24 – Christoph Johann von Medem, German courtier (b. 1763)
- April 12 – Johann Adam Möhler, German theologian (born 1796)
- June 14 – Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman (b. 1759)
- August 21 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
- November 9 – Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (born 1766)