Events from the year 1859 in Germany.
Incumbents King of Bavaria – Maximilian II King of Hanover – George V King of Prussia – Frederick William IV King of Saxony – John of Saxony
Events
4 February – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt.
Births
27 January – Wilhelm II, last Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (d. 1941 ) 3 February – Hugo Junkers, German industrialist, aircraft designer (d. 1935) 7 April – Jacques Loeb, German–American physiologist, biologist (d. 1924) 25 December – Ludwig von Estorff, German general (d. 1943 )
Deaths
20 January – Bettina von Arnim, composer and author (born 1785) 6 May – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and geographer (b. 1769)
8 July – Charlotte von Siebold, German gynecologist (b. 1788 ) 28 September – Carl Ritter, German geographer (b. 1779) 4 October – Karl Baedeker, German author, publisher (b. 1801) 22 October – Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer (b. 1784) 16 December – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist, folklorist (b. 1786)
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