Events from the year 1831 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
2 May - The Polytechnic Institute, today's Leibniz University Hanover established. Founded on 2 May 1831, it is one of the largest and oldest science and technology universities in Germany.uni-hannover.de: Studium, Stand: 15. April 2009
Births 7 January – Heinrich von Stephan, German postal union organizer (d. 1897) 26 January – Heinrich Anton de Bary, German botanist, mycologist (d. 1888) 24 February – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899) 8 September – Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist (d. 1910) 18 September – Siegfried Marcus, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1898) 6 October – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916) 18 October – Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888)
Deaths
21 January – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781) 17 February – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1785) 25 February – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752) 5 August – Sébastien Érard, German-born French instrument maker (b. 1752) 24 August – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760) 28 September – Philippine Engelhard, German writer, scholar (b. 1756) 14 November – Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770) 16 November – Carl von Clausewitz, German military strategist (b. 1780)
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