Bavaria (died 1916) 23 May - Otto Lilienthal, German engineer, aviation pioneer (died 1896) 23 May - Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, German general (died 1916) 3 July – Lothar von Trotha, German military commander (died 1920) 22 July - Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1914) 7 September - Berta Behrens, German novelist (died 1912) 8 September – Viktor Meyer, German chemist (died 1897) 18 September - Maximilian Nitze, German urologist (died 1916) 20 September – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur, inventor of the hole punch and ringbinder (died 1919) 8 November – Gottlob Frege, German logician (died 1925) 23 November - Habbo Gerhard Lolling, German archaeologist (died 1894) 27 November – Maximilian von Prittwitz, German general (died 1917) 22 December - Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, German classical philologist (died 1931) Deaths 9 January – Caroline Herschel, German astronomer (born 1750) 22 January - Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider, German Protestant scholar and theologian (born 1776) 15 February – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (born 1771) 22 February – Wilhelmine Reichard, first German woman balloonist (born 1788) 24 May – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (born 1797) 10 July – Karoline Jagemann, German actress (born 1777) 18 September - Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald, Prussian general (born 1792) 9 November – Robert Blum, German politician (born 1810) 28 November - Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, German noblewoman (born 1799) 16 December - Bruno Erhard Abegg, German politician and statesman (born 1803) 31 December - Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German philologist (born 1772) undated - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer in Australia (born 1813) External links Bundestag.de: Revolution und Frankfurter Nationalversammlung 1848/1849 (German) Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Revolution von 1848 (German) References Years of the 19th century in Germany 1848 in Germany Germany Germany