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1838Events from the year 1838 in Germany
Incumbents
Kingdom of Prussia
Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1798 – 7 June 1840)Tikkanen Amy 30 July 2018 Federick William III https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III 2022-09-21 Encyclopaedia Britannica
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)Van der Kiste 2004 189
Kingdom of Württemberg – William (1816–1864)
Events
Date unknown
Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
Births
January 6- Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
January 16 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist (d. 1917)
June 24 – Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (d. 1917)
July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer, founder of the Zeppelin Company (d. 1917)
Deaths
February 24 – Christoph Johann von Medem, German courtier (b. 1763)
April 12 – Johann Adam Möhler, German theologian (born 1796)
June 14 – Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman (b. 1759)
August 21 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
November 9 – Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (born 1766)
References
Bibliography
Van der Kiste
John
John Van der Kiste
2004
George III's Children
revised
Sutton Publishing Ltd
Stroud, United Kingdom
978-0-7509-3438-1
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Germany
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