1860 in Germany
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Events from the year 1860 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- 17 May â The sports club TSV 1860 Munich is founded in the Bavarian capital of Munich
- 3 September â The Karlsruhe Congress of chemists begins
Undated
- Cologne Zoological Garden is opened.
- Erlenmeyer flask is created by Emil Erlenmeyer.
Births
- 14 February â Eugen Schiffer, German politician (died 1954)
- 25 March â Friedrich Naumann, German politician (died 1919)
- 4 May â Hans Georg Friedrich GroÃ, German balloonist and airship constructor (died 1924)
- 20 May â Eduard Buchner, German chemist, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1917)
- 4 June â Friedrich Schmidt-Ott, German lawyer, scientific organizer, and science policymaker (died (1956)
- 5 July â Albert Döderlein, German obstetrician and gynecologist (died 1941)
- 24 July â Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Prussian princess (died 1919)
- 25 July â Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (died 1917)
- 13 September â Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf, German general (died 1936)
- 28 October â Hugo PreuÃ, German lawyer and liberal politician (died 1925)
- 24 November â Ulrike Henschke, German women's right activist and education reformer (died 1897)[1]
Deaths
- 9 January â Karl Rudolf Brommy, German naval officer (born 1804)
- 29 January â Ernst Moritz Arndt, historian, writer and poet (born 1769)
- 15 April â Christine Genast, actress, singer and pianist (born 1798)[2]
- 14 May â Ludwig Bechstein, writer (born 1801)
- 18 June â Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, diplomat and military writer (born 1783)
- 21 September â Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (born 1788)
- 25 November â Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg, nobleman, explorer and writer (born 1797)
- 21 December â Peter Friedhofen, German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians (born 1819)