1834 in Germany

Events from the year 1834 in Germany

Incumbents[]

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)^[1]
• Kingdom of Bavaria
  • Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
• Kingdom of Saxony
  • Anthony (5 May 1827 – 6 June 1836)
• Kingdom of Hanover
  • William IV (26 June 1830 to 1837)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
  • William (1816–1864)

Events[]

• January 1 – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at borders within its member states.
• December 3 – The Zollverein institutes the first regular census in Germany. The population is 23,478,120.
• Heinrich Heine – Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland (The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany)
• Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg independence ended in 1834 when the estates not bequeathed to princes Victor and Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst were reunited with Hesse-Kassel.

Births[]

Heinrich von Treitschke

Gottlieb Daimler.

• January 7 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist, inventor (d. 1874)
• January 17 – August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (d. 1914)
• February 6 – Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist who discovered Diphtheria (d. 1913)
• February 9 – Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912)
• February 16 – Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist, philosopher (d. 1919)
• March 17 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer, inventor (d. 1900)
• March 23 – Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858)
• May 9 – Alexander Calandrelli, German sculptor (died 1903)
• May 20 – Albert Niemann, German chemist (d. 1861)

• August 5 – Ewald Hering (died 1918), German physiologist.

• August 29 – Hermann Sprengel (died 1906), German-born chemist.
• September 15 – Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (died 1896)
• September 30 – Carl Schorlemmer (died 1892), German organic chemist.
• November 8 – Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, German astrophysicist (d. 1882)
• November 19 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
• December 9 – Leopold Müller, German-born Austrian painter (died 1892)

Deaths[]

Friedrich Schleiermacher

• February 12 – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1768)
• February 23 – Karl Ludwig von Knebel, German poet (b. 1744)
• February 26 – Alois Senefelder, German actor, playwright and inventor of lithography (born 1771)
• March 30 – Rudolph Ackermann, Anglo-German entrepreneur (b. 1764)
• March 31 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (born 1760)

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