Events from the year 1834 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 1 January – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at borders within its member states. 12 November – The Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg loses its independence when the estates not bequeathed to princes Victor and Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst are reunited with Hesse-Kassel. 3 December – The Zollverein institutes the first regular census in Germany. The population is 23,478,120.
Publications Heinrich Heine – Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland (The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany)
Births
7 January – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist, inventor (d. 1874) 17 January – August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (d. 1914) 6 February – Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist who discovered Diphtheria (d. 1913) 9 February – Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912) 16 February – Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist, philosopher (d. 1919) 17 March – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer, inventor (d. 1900) 23 March – Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858) 9 May – Alexander Calandrelli, German sculptor (died 1903) 20 May – Albert Niemann, German chemist (d. 1861) 5 August – Ewald Hering (died 1918), German physiologist. 29 August – Hermann Sprengel (died 1906), German-born chemist. 15 September – Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (died 1896) 30 September – Carl Schorlemmer (died 1892), German organic chemist. 8 November – Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, German astrophysicist (d. 1882) 19 November – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924) 9 December – Leopold Müller, German-born Austrian painter (died 1892)
Deaths
12 February – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1768) 23 February – Karl Ludwig von Knebel, German poet (b. 1744) 26 February – Alois Senefelder, German actor, playwright and inventor of lithography (born 1771) 30 March – Rudolph Ackermann, Anglo-German entrepreneur (b. 1764) 31 March – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (born 1760) 8 September – Gustav Schübler, German naturalist (born 1787) 3 December – Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher (born 1764) 6 December – Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Prussian general (born 1782) 7 December – Ludwig Schuncke, composer (born 1810)
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