1859 in Germany

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Events from the year 1859 in Germany.

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
• King of Hanover – George V
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – John of Saxony

Events

• February 4 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt.

Births

Wilhelm II of Germany

• January 27 – Wilhelm II of Germany , last Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (d. 1941 )
• February 3 – Hugo Junkers, German industrialist, aircraft designer (d. 1935)
• April 7 – Jacques Loeb, German–American physiologist, biologist (d. 1924)
• December 25 – Ludwig von Estorff , German general (d. 1943 )

Deaths

• May 6 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, geographer (b. 1769)

Wilhelm Grimm

• July 8 - Charlotte von Siebold , German gynecologist (b. 1788 )
• September 28 – Carl Ritter, German geographer (b. 1779)
• October 4 – Karl Baedeker, German author, publisher (b. 1801)
• October 22 – Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer (b. 1784)
• December 16 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist, folklorist (b. 1786)