1845 in Germany
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Events from the year 1845 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- March 13 â The Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn premieres in Leipzig, with Ferdinand David as soloist.
- October 19 â Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser debuts at the Dresden Royal Court Theater.
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- Friedrich Engels' treatise The Condition of the Working Class in England is published in Leipzig as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England.[2][3] convincing Marx that the working class could be the agent and instrument of the final revolution in history.[4][5]
- Heinrich Hoffmann publishes a book (Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder), introducing his character, Struwwelpeter, in Germany.
Births
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- January 7 â King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
- March 3 â Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)
- March 27 â Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
Deaths
- May 12- August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet, translator and critic (b. 1767)
- July 12-Friedrich Ludwig Persius, German architect (b. 1803)
