1847 in Germany

none 1847 Events from the year 1847 in Germany. Incumbents King of Bavaria – Ludwig I. King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus King of Prussia – Frederick William IV King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II Event 12 October – German inventors and industrialists Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske found Siemens & Halske to develop the electrical telegraph. Births thumb|right|110px|Paul von Hindenburg 4 February – Remus von Woyrsch, German field marshal (d. 1920) 16 February – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917) 27 March – -Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931) 20 July – Max Liebermann, German painter, printmaker (d. 1935) 25 July – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (d. 1888) 2 October – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal, President of Germany (d. 1934) Deaths thumb|110px|right|Felix Mendelssohn 14 May – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist (b. 1805)Don Michael Randel The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music Cambridge Belknap Press 1999 978-0-67400-084-1 376 16 July – Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist (b. 1776) 22 October – Henriette Herz, German salonnière (b. 1764) 4 November – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809) References 1847 Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany Germany Germany