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13 March – Adolf Anderssen, German chess master (born 1818) 4 April – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (born 1803) 11 May – Bernhard Wolff, German newspaper publisher (born 1811) 15 May – Gottfried Semper, German architect (born 1803) 5 June – August Krönig, German chemist and physicist (born 1822)
1879: 7 October: Germany and Austria-Hungary joined a mutual defense treaty, the Dual Alliance. 1880: July: Kulturkampf: The First Mitigation Law was passed, resuming government payments to Prussian dioceses. 16 December: First Boer War: Boer rebels laid siege to a British fort at Potchefstroom. 1882: 20 May
Germany's dominance in physics and chemistry was such that one-third of all Nobel Prizes went to German inventors and researchers. The German cartel system (known as Konzerne), being significantly concentrated, was able to make more efficient use of capital. Germany was not weighted down with an expensive worldwide empire that needed defense.
Marie Juchacz (German pronunciation: [maˈʁiː ˈjʊxatʃ]; née Marie Gohlke; born Landsberg an der Warthe, 15 March 1879; died Düsseldorf, 28 January 1956) [1] was a German politician, social reformer and women's rights activist.
German women found guilty of "racial defilement" were publicly humiliated with their heads being shaven by members of the local SA and NSDAP members and being forced to wear signs reading "I went with a Pole and polluted German blood". [40] Afterwards, the women were sent to the concentration camp at Ravensbruck. [40]
Albania: The first school of higher education for women is opened. [146] Germany: Women are allowed to attend university lectures, which makes it possible for individual professors to accept female students if they wish. [116] Portugal: The first medical university degree is granted to a woman. [147] Switzerland: Secondary schools opened to ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch, Fol. 149.Kudrun.The early sixteenth century epic collection Ambraser Heldenbuch, one of the most important works of medieval German literature, focuses largely on female characters (with notable texts being its versions of the Nibelungenlied, the Kudrun and the poem Nibelungenklage) and defends the concept of Frauenehre (female honour) against the increasing misogyny of ...
1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1879th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 879th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of ...