1839 in Germany
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{{Year in Germany|1839}}Events from the year 1839 in Germany
Incumbents
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840){{Cite web |last=Tikkanen |first=Amy |date=30 July 2018 |title=Federick William III |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=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){{sfn|Van der Kiste|2004|p=189}}
- Kingdom of Württemberg – William (1816–1864)
Events
- April 7- The first long-distance railway opened Leipzig-Dresden railway.{{cite book|publisher=Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit mbH |title=Die Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn: Das Schienenverkehrsprojekt Deutsche Einheit Nr. 9. |location=Dresden |year=1993|language=de}} (12 page brochure)
- April 19- The Duchy of Limburg created in 1839 from parts of the Dutch Province of Limburg as a result of the Treaty of London and part of German Confederation.Jean-Louis Kupper (2007) Les origines du duché de Limbourg-sur-Vesdre", Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire Année 85-3-4 pp. 609-637 [http://www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_2007_num_85_3_5096]
- April 19- Britain, Prussia, France and the Netherlands agree to the Treaty of London that guaranteed the neutrality of Belgium.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q0_6pPNR40EC&q=%22London+conference%22+1839&pg=PA417|chapter=Places of Refuge: The Belgian Experience|pages=415–428|author=Eric Van Hooydonk|title= Places of Refuge for Ships: Emerging Environmental Concerns of a Maritime Custom|editor1=Aldo E. Chircop |editor2=O. Lindén|publisher= Martinus Nijhoff|location=Leiden|year=2006|access-date=30 May 2012|isbn=9789004149526}}{{rp|417}}
Births
- January 4 - Carl Humann, German archaeologist (d. 1896){{cite web|title=Karl Humann|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Humann|accessdate=18 May 2017|website=Britannica.com}}
- April 3 – Karl, Freiherr von Prel, German philosopher (d. 1899){{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/11988548|title=Josephson, Jason Ānanda. "Specters of Reason: Kantian Things and the Fragile Terrors of Philosophy" J19, Volume 3, Number1, Spring 2015, pp. 204–211.|website=www.academia.edu|access-date=2016-03-07}}
- July 12 - Jean Baptiste Holzmayer, German archaeologist (d. 1890){{cite web |url=http://www.saaremaa.ee/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124&Itemid=147 |last1=Salumäe |first1=Õilme |title=Jakob Hurda seostest Saaremaaga |publisher=saaremaa.ee |language=Estonian |access-date=19 September 2015 |archive-date=13 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413103241/http://www.saaremaa.ee/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124&Itemid=147 |url-status=dead }}
- July 17- Friedrich Gernsheim (1839–1916), German composer, conductor and pianist.Pitt, Lavender. {{Google books|A5oPAAAAYAAJ|The Musical World}}. 1 August 1874 issue. J. Novello. v.52, p.512.
- October 2 – Hans Thoma, German painter (died 1924){{Cite journal|date=31 October 2011|title=Thoma, Hans|url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00181989|journal=Benezit Dictionary of Artists|doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00181989|isbn=978-0-19-977378-7|access-date=16 November 2019|url-access=subscription}}
- November 20 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882){{cite book|last=Ebe|first=G.|title=Der Deutsche Cicerone: Führer durch die Künstschätze der Länder Deutscher Zunge|publisher=BiblioBazaar|year=2008|isbn=978-0-554-46498-5|page=450|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jvdmBtzbr6gC|language=German}}
Deaths
- January 6 -Princess Marie of Orléans, Duchess of Wurtenberg (b. 1813)Dyson, C. C: The life of Marie Amélie last queen of the French, 1782-1866. With some account of the principal personages at the courts of Naples and France in her time, and of the careers of her sons and daughters (1910)
- January 12 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (born 1768) March 20 – Caspar Voght, German businessman (b. 1752)
- August 3 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist and translator (born 1764)In older literature and on her gravestone one finds the date 1763, but this is the birthyear of her elder sister Sara (May 23, 1763 – April 15, 1764) whose death was one of the reasons Moses Mendelssohn wrote the Phaedon. Cf. Alexander Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn, London 1973, Moses Mendelssohn, Jubilaeumsausgabe, Bd. 12,1, p. 43; letter to Thomas Abbt, May 1, 1764
- September 4 – Hermann Olshausen, German theologian (born 1796)The Wartburg Festival, held on October 18, 1817. See [http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=426 The Wartburg Festival (1817)], accessed 28 February 2016
References
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Bibliography
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| first = John
| author-link = John Van der Kiste
| year = 2004
| title = George III's Children
| edition = revised
| publisher = Sutton Publishing Ltd
| location = Stroud, United Kingdom
| isbn = 978-0-7509-3438-1
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