Events from the year 1845 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
Events
March 13 – The Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn premieres in Leipzig, with Ferdinand David as soloist. October 19 – Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser debuts at the Dresden Royal Court Theater.
Date unknown Friedrich Engels' treatise The Condition of the Working Class in England is published in Leipzig as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England.Mansel, Philip: Paris Between Empires, p. 390 (St. Martin Press, NY) 2001Frederick Engels, "The Condition of the Working Class in England", contained in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 4 (International Publishers: New York, 1975) pp. 295–596. convincing Marx that the working class could be the agent and instrument of the final revolution in history.P. N. Fedoseyev, Karl Marx: A Biography (Progress Publishers: Moscow, 1973) p. 82. Heinrich Hoffmann publishes a book (Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder), introducing his character, Struwwelpeter, in Germany.
Births
January 7 – King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921) March 3 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918) March 27 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
Deaths
May 12- August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet, translator and critic (b. 1767) July 12-Friedrich Ludwig Persius, German architect (b. 1803)
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