Events from the year 1838 in Germany
Incumbents Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1798 – 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
Date unknown Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
Births
January 6- Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920) January 16 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist (d. 1917) June 24 – Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (d. 1917) July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer, founder of the Zeppelin Company (d. 1917)
Deaths
February 24 – Christoph Johann von Medem, German courtier (b. 1763) April 12 – Johann Adam Möhler, German theologian (born 1796) June 14 – Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman (b. 1759) August 21 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781) November 9 – Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (born 1766)
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