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List of events
Events from the year 1840 in
Germany
Incumbents
Events
Births
Ernst Abbe
Deaths
Caspar David Friedrich
Frederick William III of Prussia
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January 22 –
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b.
1752)
- March 2 –
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (b.
1758), German
astronomer.
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May 7 –
Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (b.
1774)
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May 11 –
Eduard Joseph d'Alton, German engraver and naturalist (b.
1772)
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May 14 –
Carl Ludvig Engel, German-Finnish architect (b.
1778)
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June 7 – King
Frederick William III of Prussia (b.
1770)
- July 4 –
Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe (born
1787), German
surgeon.
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July 6 –
Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (b.
1763)
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July 23 –
Carl Blechen,
German painter, specializing in
fantastic
landscapes with
demons and
grotesque figures (b.
1798)
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August 25 –
Karl Leberecht Immermann, German novelist, dramatist (b.
1796)
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References
Bibliography
Van der Kiste, John (2004), George III's Children (revised ed.),
Stroud, United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing Ltd,
ISBN
978-0-7509-3438-1