Events from the year 1839 in Germany
Incumbents Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) Kingdom of Bavaria Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848) Prime Minister – Karl von Abel (1837–1847) Kingdom of Saxony Frederick Augustus (1836–1854) Kingdom of Hanover– Ernest Augustus (1837–1851) Kingdom of Württemberg – William (1816–1864)
Events
April 7- The first long-distance railway opened Leipzig-Dresden railway. (12 page brochure) April 19- The Duchy of Limburg created in 1839 from parts of the Dutch Province of Limburg as a result of the Treaty of London and part of German Confederation.Jean-Louis Kupper (2007) Les origines du duché de Limbourg-sur-Vesdre", Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire Année 85-3-4 pp. 609-637 April 19- Britain, Prussia, France and the Netherlands agree to the Treaty of London that guaranteed the neutrality of Belgium.
Births January 4 - Carl Humann, German archaeologist (d. 1896) April 3 – Karl, Freiherr von Prel, German philosopher (d. 1899) July 12 - Jean Baptiste Holzmayer, German archaeologist (d. 1890) July 17- Friedrich Gernsheim (1839–1916), German composer, conductor and pianist.Pitt, Lavender. . 1 August 1874 issue. J. Novello. v.52, p.512. October 2 – Hans Thoma, German painter (died 1924) November 20 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
Deaths
January 6 – Princess Marie of Orléans, Duchess of Wurtenberg (b. 1813)Dyson, C. C: The life of Marie Amélie last queen of the French, 1782-1866. With some account of the principal personages at the courts of Naples and France in her time, and of the careers of her sons and daughters (1910) January 12 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (born 1768) March 20 – Caspar Voght, German businessman (b. 1752) August 3 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist and translator (born 1764)In older literature and on her gravestone one finds the date 1763, but this is the birthyear of her elder sister Sara (May 23, 1763 – April 15, 1764) whose death was one of the reasons Moses Mendelssohn wrote the Phaedon. Cf. Alexander Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn, London 1973, Moses Mendelssohn, Jubilaeumsausgabe, Bd. 12,1, p. 43; letter to Thomas Abbt, May 1, 1764 September 4 – Hermann Olshausen, German theologian (born 1796)The Wartburg Festival, held on October 18, 1817. See The Wartburg Festival (1817), accessed 28 February 2016 September 29 – Friedrich Mohs, German geologist, mineralogist (b. 1773) November 18 – Wilhelmine von Wrochem, flutist, singer and actress (b. 1798)
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