Events from the year 1833 in Germany
Incumbents Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) Kingdom of Bavaria Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848) Kingdom of Saxony Anthony (5 May 1827 – 6 June 1836) Kingdom of Hanover William IV (26 June 1830 to 1837) Kingdom of Württemberg William (1816–1864)
Events 6 February – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King of Greece, Prince of Bavaria. 6 May – Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen. 14 December – Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious German youth, is stabbed, dying three days later on 17 December.
Date unknown The dawn of biochemistry: The first enzyme, diastase, is discovered by Anselme Payen.
Births
5 January – Eugene W. Hilgard, German-American "Father of soil science" (d. 1916) 28 February – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913) 5 May – Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician (d. 1902) 7 May – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
3 August – Auguste Schmidt, German educator, women's rights activist (d. 1902) 25 December – Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1916)
Deaths 16 January – Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer (b. 1769) 16 October – Meno Haas, German-born copperplate engraver (b. 1752) 17 December – Kaspar Hauser, German youth of uncertain origin (stabbed) (b. 1812?)Walther Schreibmüller: Bilanz einer 150jährigen Kaspar Hauser-Forschung, in: Genealogisches Jahrbuch 31, 1991, pp. 43–84
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