1864 in Germany

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Events from the year 1864 in Germany.

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Maximilian II of Bavaria; Ludwig II of Bavaria
• King of Prussia – William I
• King of Saxony – John

Events

• February 1 - Beginning of Second Schleswig War
• February 2 - Battle of Mysunde
• February 6 - Battle of Sankelmark
• March 17 - Battle of Jasmund
• April 7-18 - Battle of Dybbøl
• April 25 - June 25 - London Conference of 1864
• May 9 - Battle of Heligoland
• June 29/July 1 - Battle of Als
• July 3 - Battle of Lundby
• October 30 - Treaty of Vienna, End of Second Schleswig War
• undated - Evacuation of Danevirke
• undated - Alfred Enneper publishes his parametrization of the Enneper surface in connection with minimal surface theory.
• undated - Hugo Erfurt invented Ingrain wallpaper.

Births

• January 8 - Julie Wolfthorn, German painter (died 1944)
• January 13 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
• February 5 - Carl Teike, German composer (died 1922)
• February 16 - Hermann Stehr, German novelist and writer (died 1940)
• February 24 - Alfred Jeremias, German pastor, Assyriologist and an expert on the religions of the Ancient Near East (died 1935)
• March 4 - Johanna Ey, German art dealer (died 1944)
• March 30 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (died 1943)
• April 11 - Johanna Elberskirchen, German writer and women’s rights activist (died 1943)
• April 21 – Max Weber, German sociologist (died 1920)
• May 5 - Hans Gerhard Gräf, German Goethe specialist (died 1942)
• May 12 - Cäsar Flaischlen, German poet (died 1920)
• May 21 - Otfried Nippold, German jurist (died 1938)
• May 22 - Willy Stöwer, German artist and painter (died 1931)
• June 2 – Wilhelm Souchon, German admiral (died 1946)
• June 3 - Albert Fraenkel, German physician (died 1938)
• June 11 – Richard Strauss, German composer (died 1949)
• June 14 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, neuropathologist (died 1915)
• June 16 - Willy Wolterstorff, German paleontologist and herpetologist (died 1943)
• June 22 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (died 1909), born in Russia
• June 25 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
• July 18 - Ricarda Huch, German historian and writer (died 1947)
• July 24 - Frank Wedekind, German playwright (died 1918)
• August 12 - Kuno von Westarp, German politician (died 1945)
• August 17 - Paul Wendland, German philologist (died 1915)
• August 20 - Karl Fritz, German Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1931)
• August 27 - Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (died 1919)
• September 19 - Carl Correns, German biologist (died 1933)
• September 26 - Arthur Kampf, German painter (died 1950)
• October 5 - Arthur Zimmermann, German diplomat (died 1945)
• October 30 - Theodor Wiegand, German archaeologist (died 1936)
• November 27 - Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, German admiral (died 1928), born in Russia
• December 31 - Hans am Ende, German painter (died 1918)

Deaths

• January 27 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (born 1784)
• March 10 - Maximilian II of Bavaria, German king of Bavaria (born 1811)
• May 2 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (born 1791), died in France
• August 3 - Jakob Walter, German stonemason, common draftee (born 1788)

References

Category:1864 in Germany Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany Category:1864 in Europe Category:1864 by country

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