1841 in Germany

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Events from the year 1841 in Germany

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[]

11 July – German immigrants set sail for Australia, on the Skjold.

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)

References[]

Bibliography[]

Van der Kiste, John (2004), George III's Children (revised ed.), Stroud, United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing Ltd, ISBN 978-0-7509-3438-1