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1850 in Germany
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Events from the year
1850 in Germany
.
Incumbents
King of Bavaria
–
Maximilian II
King of Hanover
–
Ernest Augustus
King of Prussia
–
Frederick William IV
King of Saxony
–
Frederick Augustus II
Events
31 January
– The
Constitution of Prussia
is adopted.
[
1
]
25 July
-
Battle of Isted
28 August
–
Richard Wagner
's opera
Lohengrin
premieres in
Weimar
under the direction of
Franz Liszt
.
24 November
-
Battle of Lottorf
29 November
– The
Punctation of Olmütz
was agreed between the
Austrian Empire
and
Prussia
. It granted the Austrians leadership of the revived
German Confederation
.
Births
6 January
-
Eduard Bernstein
, German politician (died
1932
)
17 February
-
Georg Theodor August Gaffky
, German bacteriologist (died
1918
)
7 March
-
Georg von Vollmar
, Bavarian politician (died
1922
)
9 March
-
Josias von Heeringen
, German general (died
1926
)
18 March
-
Ernst Büchner
, German chemist (died
1924
)
1 April
-
Hans von Pechmann
, German chemist (died
1902
)
9 April
-
Hermann Zumpe
, German conductor and composer (died
1903
)
16 April
–
Paul von Breitenbach
, German railway planner (died
1930
)
6 June
–
Karl Ferdinand Braun
, winner of the 1909
Nobel Prize in Physics
(died
1918
)
13 June
-
Max Lenz
, German historian (died
1932
)
12 July
-
Otto Schoetensack
, German anthropologist (died
1912
)
20 October
-
Adolf Rosenzweig
, German rabbi (died
1918
)
16 December
-
Hans Ernst August Buchner
, German bacteriologist (died
1902
)
Deaths
27 January
-
Johann Gottfried Schadow
, German sculptor (born
1764
)
13 May
-
Johann Jakob Bernhardi
, German physician and botanist (born
1774
)
21 May
–
Christoph Friedrich von Ammon
, German theological writer, preacher (born
1766
)
14 July
–
August Neander
, German theologian, church historian (born
1789
)
22 September
–
Johann Heinrich von Thünen
, German economist (born
1783
)
4 November
–
Gustav Schwab
, German classical scholar and writer (born
1792
)
28 December
-
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
, German astronomer (born
1780
)
References
↑
Friedrich Wilhelm; Robinson, James Harvey (September 1894).
"Supplement: Constitution of the Kingdom of Prussia"
(PDF)
.
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
.
5
:
1–
54.
JSTOR
1009032
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