1841 in Germany
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Incumbents
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1840–1861)
- 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)[1]
- Kingdom of Württemberg – William (1816–1864)
Events
Births
- February 24 – Carl Gräbe, German chemist (d. 1927)
- March 21 – Mathilde Blind, German-born English poet (died 1896)
- April 3 – Hermann Carl Vogel, German astrophysicist, astronomer (d. 1907)
- June 19 – Hermann Eduard von Holst, German historian (died 1904)
- August 12 – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (died 1924)
Deaths
- February 21 – Dorothea Tieck, German translator (born 1799)
- May 23 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher, theologian (b. 1765)
- August 11 – Johann Friedrich Herbart, German philosopher (born 1776)
- October 9 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (b. 1781)
- October 31 – Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, German philologist and philosopher (born 1778)