1858 in Germany

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Events from the year 1858 in Germany .

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Maximilian II ^[1]
• King of Hanover – George V
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – John of Saxony

Events

• William I of Prussia becomes regent for his brother, Frederick William IV, who has suffered a stroke.
• January 25 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional, after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria 's daughter Victoria, Princess Royal , to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St James's Palace , London. ^[2]

Births

Rudolf Diesel

Max Planck

• January 10 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator, photographer (d. 1929)
• February 18 – Wilhelm Schmidt, German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives (d. 1924 )
• February 24 - Friedrich Schrempf, German editor, politician (d. 1913)
• March 18 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor, automotive pioneer (d. 1913)
• March 23 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)
• March 27 – Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, German physician, bacteriologist (d. 1945)
• April 23 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947) ^[3]
• July 9 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
• November 10 – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (d. 1928)
• December 19 – Adolf Schiel, German-born officer in Boer armed forces (d. 1903)

Deaths

• February 13 – Hermann Heinrich Gossen, economist (b. 1810)
• March 20 – Johannes Gossner, theologian and philanthropist (b. 1810) ^[4]
• June 3 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
• December 13 – Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher, German botanist (b. 1799 )

References

1. William Harrison De Puy (1881). The People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge...Down to the Year 1881. p. 916.
2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN   0-14-102715-0.
3. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei (2001). Max Planck, L'inizio Della Nuova Fisica: Convegno Internazionale. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. p. 13. ISBN   978-88-218-0848-7.
4.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gossner, Johannes Evangelista". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.