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 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
14 May – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist (b. 1805) 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)
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