1845 in Germany
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Events from the year 1845 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Ludwig I
- King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus[1]
- King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
Events
- March 13 – The Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn premieres in Leipzig, with Ferdinand David as soloist.
- October 19 – Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser debuts at the Dresden Royal Court Theater.
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- Friedrich Engels' treatise The Condition of the Working Class in England is published in Leipzig as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England.[2][3] convincing Marx that the working class could be the agent and instrument of the final revolution in history.[4][5]
- Heinrich Hoffmann publishes a book (Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder), introducing his character, Struwwelpeter, in Germany.
Births
- January 7 – King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
- March 3 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)
- March 27 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
Deaths
- May 12- August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet, translator and critic (b. 1767)
- July 12-Friedrich Ludwig Persius, German architect (b. 1803)
References
- ^ Van der Kiste 2004, p. 189.
- ^ Mansel, Philip: Paris Between Empires, p. 390 (St. Martin Press, NY) 2001
- ^ Frederick Engels, "The Condition of the Working Class in England", contained in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 4 (International Publishers: New York, 1975) pp. 295–596.
- ^ T. B. Bottomore (1991). A Dictionary of Marxist thought. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-0-631-18082-1. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
- ^ P. N. Fedoseyev, Karl Marx: A Biography (Progress Publishers: Moscow, 1973) p. 82.
Bibliography
Van der Kiste, John (2004), George III's Children (revised ed.), Stroud, United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing Ltd, ISBN 978-0-7509-3438-1
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