1855 in Germany
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Incumbents
Events
- The cocaine alkaloid is first isolated by German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke
Births
- February 17 â Otto Liman von Sanders, German general (d. 1929)
- February 24 â Johannes von Eben, German general (d. 1924 )
- May 9 â Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932)
- June 28 â Theodor Reuss, German occultist (d. 1923)
- July 26 â Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
- August 25 â Hugo von Pohl, German admiral (d. 1916)
- August 27 â Hugo von Kathen, German general (d. 1932)
- September 9 â Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-born German writer (d. 1927)[1]
- October 10 â Eduard von Capelle, German admiral (d. 1931)[2]
Deaths
- February 23 â Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)