1832 in Germany

Events from the year 1832 in Germany.

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig I of Bavaria
• King of Prussia – Frederick William III of Prussia^[1]
• Anthony of Saxony
• King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg
• Grand Duke of Baden – Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden

• Hambacher Fest
  , a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity, ends with no result.
• 15 December – The CGS system
  goes back to a proposal in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss to base a system of absolute units on the three fundamental units of length.

• The first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, is published in Koblenz.
• Publication begins (posthumously) of Carl von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege ("On War").
• Weimar Classicism ends with death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Work Faust, Part Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published.
• Work Maler Nolten by Eduard Mörike is published.
• Song Ihr Kinderlein, kommet by Christoph von Schmid is published.
• Opera Die Hochzeit by Richard Wagner
• Symphony in C major by Richard Wagner
• String Quintet No. 1 b by Felix Mendelssohn revised

Births

• 21 January – Carl Hubert von Wendt, German politician (died 1903
  )
• 24 January – Albert Arnz, German painter (died 1914
  )
• 25 January – Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff, Prussian general (died 1891
  )
• 28 January – Franz Wüllner, German composer (died 1902
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• 29 January – Wilhelm Böckmann, German architect (died 1902
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• 30 January – Karl von Thielen, German politician (died 1906
  )
• 13 February – Wilhelm Müller, German pathologe, (died 1909
  )
• 21 February – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer (died 1932
  )
• 10 March – Heinrich Bellermann, German music theorist (died 1903
  )
• 4 April – Fedor Flinzer, German writer (died 1911
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• 8 April – Alfred von Waldersee, German fieldmarshall (died 1904
  )
• 15 April – Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (died 1908)^[2]
• 7 May – Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, German protestant theologian (died 1910
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• 12 May – Carl von Perbandt, German landscape painter (died 1911
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• 14 May – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (died 1903
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• 18 May – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line (died 1913
  )
• 10 June – Nicolaus Otto, German engineer (died 1891
  )
• 1 July – Karl Binz, German pharmacologist (died 1913
  )
• 19 July – Julius von Verdy du Vernois, German general (died 1910
  )
• 7 August – Max Lange, German writer, publisher and chess player (died 1899
  )
• 8 August – George, King of Saxony (died 1904
  )
• 9 August – Alexander von Monts, German officer (died 1889
  )
• 16 August – Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (died 1920
  )
• 1 September – Hermann Steudner, German botanist (died 1863
  )
• 2 October – Julius von Sachs, German botanist (died 1897
  )
• 6 October
  :
  • August Eisenlohr, German egyptologist (died 1902)
  • Christian Mali, German painter and art professor (died 1906)
• 21 October – Gustav Langenscheidt, German publisher (died 1895
  )
• 22 October – Robert Eitner, German musicologist, researcher and bibliographer (died 1905
  )
• 24 September – Gustav Frank, German theologian (died 1904
  )
• 9 November – Adele Spitzeder, German actress and folk singer (died 1895
  )
• 15 November – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (died 1932
  )
• 18 November – John Gottlieb Auer, German Anglican bishop (died 1874
  )
• 12 December – Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg, German politician (died 1887
  )
• 16 December – Wilhelm Julius Foerster, German astronomer (died 1921
  )

• 17 January – August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltz, German politician (born 1765
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• 15 February – Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, German-Danish composer (born 1746
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• 23 February – Wolf Heidenheim, German exegete (born 1757
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• 12 March – Friedrich Kuhlau, German Danish composer (born 1786
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• 22 March – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (born 1749
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• 28 March – Lazarus Bendavid, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1762
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• 30 March – Dora Stock, German portrait painter (born 1760
  )
• 15 April – Adam Eberle, German painter (born 1804
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• 21 April – Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Unzelmann, German actor and opera singer (born 1753
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• 24 April – Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, German botanist and taxonomist (born 1763
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• 7 May – Christian Gottfried Schütz, German classical scholar and humanist (born 1747
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• 15 May – Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (born 1758
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• 20 May – Johann Birnbaum, German jurist (born 1763
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• 9 June – Friedrich von Gentz, German diplomat and writer (born 1764
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• 21 June – Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (born 1754
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• 19 July – Karl Julius Weber, German writer (born 1767
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• 23 August – Johann Georg Wagler, German herpetologist and ornithologist (born 1800
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• 27 September – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (born 1781
  )
• 1 November – Julius von Voss, German writer (born 1768
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• 8 November – Karl August von Beckers zu Westerstetten, Bavarian general (born 1770
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• 29 November – Karl Rudolphi, German-Swedish biologist and naturalist (born 1771
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• 29 December – Johann Friedrich Cotta, German publisher (born 1764)^[3]