1878 in Germany
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Events from the year 1878 in Germany .
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(July 2011 )
4 January – Gerdt von Bassewitz , German playwright and actor (died 1923 )
16 March – Clemens August Graf von Galen , German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1946 )
1 April – Carl Sternheim , German playwright and short story writer (died 1942 )
6 April – Erich Mühsam , German poet and playwright (died 1934 )
21 April – Albert Weisgerber , German painter (died 1915 )
10 May – Gustav Stresemann , Chancellor 1923, Foreign Minister 1923–29, Nobel laureate (died 1929 )
30 May – Hermine Körner , German actress (died 1960 )
4 June – Ludwig Dürr , German airship designer (died 1956 )
10 July – Otto Freundlich , German painter, sculptor (died 1943 )
16 July – Andreas Hermes , German politician (died 1964 )
26 July – Ernst Hoppenberg , German swimmer (died 1937 )
10 August – Alfred Döblin , German novelist, essayist and writer (died 1957 )
13 August – Arthur Biram , Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator (died 1967 )
17 August – Paul Troost , German architect (died 1934 )
2 September – Werner von Blomberg , German Minister of War, and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces (died 1946 )
16 September – Karl Albiker , German sculptor (died 1961 )
26 September – Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord , German general (died 1943 )
29 October – Alexander von Falkenhausen , German general (died 1966 )
30 October – Arthur Scherbius , German electrical engineer (died 1929 )
21 November – Gustav Radbruch , German legal scholar and politician (died 1949 )
15 December – Hans Carossa , German novelist (died 1956 )
30 December – Rudolf Petersen , German politician (died 1962 )
Deaths
8 March – Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel , German classical scholar (born 1820 )
20 March – Julius von Mayer , German physician and physicist (born 1814 )
23 March – Ernst Keil , German journalist and publisher (born 1816 )
25 May – Andreas von Ettingshausen , German mathematician and physicist (born 1796 )
12 June – George V of Hanover , last King of Hanover (born 1819 )
12 September – Friedrich August von Alberti , German geologist (born 1795 )
25 September – August Heinrich Petermann , German cartographer (born 1822 )
4 October – Johannes Rebmann , German missionary (born 1820 )
4 November – Ludwig Meyn , German agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist and mineralogist (born 1820 )
17 November – Karl Theodor Keim , Protestant theologian (born 1825 )
10 December – Heinrich Burgers , German journalist and politician (born 1820 )
14 December - Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1843 in the United Kingdom )
16 December – Richard Hartmann , German engineering manufacturer (born 1809 )
References
^ Dimitrije Djordjevic, "The Berlin Congress of 1878 and the Origins Of World War I." Serbian Studies (1998) 12 #1 pp 1–10.
^ Hertslet, Edward (1891), "Treaty between Great-Britain, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, for the Settlement of Affairs in the East, Signed at Berlin, 13th July 1878 (Translation)", The Map of Europe by Treaty; which have taken place since the general peace of 1814. With numerous maps and notes , vol. IV (1875–1891) (First ed.), London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, pp. 2759–2798, retrieved 8 February 2019 – via Internet Archive
^ Phillips, Walter Alison (1911). "Berlin § Berlin, Congress and Treaty of" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 790–791.
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