* 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician ( d. 1855 )

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (;, ) ( 30 April 177723 February 1855 ) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.

His master, Moses Carver, was a German American immigrant who had purchased George's parents, Mary and Giles, from William P. McGinnis on October 9, 1855, for $ 700.

* 1855 – Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer ( d. 1920 )

* 1855 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist ( d. 1936 )

* 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German businessman ( d. 1919 )

* 1855 – Paul Wiesner, German sailor ( d. 1930 )

The first German celebration on a fairly large scale was held in 1805 ( the 1150th anniversary of his death ), followed by a similar celebration in a number of towns in 1855 ; both of these were predominantly Catholic affairs, which emphasized the role of Boniface in German history as opposed to Protestant views on the role of Martin Luther, and especially the 1855 celebrations were an expression of German Catholic nationalism.

The Amana Colonies were communal settlements in Iowa, started by radical German pietists, which lasted from 1855 to 1932.

* February 23 – Hugo von Pohl, German admiral ( b. 1855 )

* February 4 – Robert Koldewey, German architect and archaeologist ( b. 1855 )

* April 30 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist ( d. 1855 )

* Arnold Mendelssohn ( 1855 – 1933 ), German composer and music teacher, a great-grandson of Moses

Paul Klee was born as the second child of the German music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee ( 1849 – 1940 ) and the Swiss singer Ida Marie Klee, née Frick ( 1855 – 1921 ).

In 1855 the German architect Gottfried Semper, at the request of Cole, produced a design for the museum, but it was rejected by the Board of Trade as too expensive.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

The Germans ' culture influenced the city, such as their " German Singing Societies ," the first of which began in 1855.

The Altar, by Martin Schneider, dates to 1672, the original organ of J. Hoferichter from Legnica ( then German Liegnitz ) of 1664 was replaced in 1855 – 1856 by Adolf Alexander Lummert.

In 1855, the German Reed Entertainments began a process of elevating the level of ( formerly risqué ) musical theatre in Britain that culminated in the famous series of comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan and were followed by the 1890s with the first Edwardian musical comedies.

Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke ( 24 August 1791 – 4 February 1855 ), was a German theologian.

In 1855, European explorers noted that there numbered over 6000 individuals of the Cowlitz Tribe.

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

The idea that cells can be generated de novo, by the " cytoblast " or otherwise, contradicted work by Robert Remak ( 1852 ) and Rudolf Virchow ( 1855 ) who decisively propagated the new paradigm that cells are generated solely by cells (" Omnis cellula e cellula ").

* Robert H. Morris ( mayor ) ( 1808 – 1855 ), Mayor of New York City

* Lord Hercules George Robert Robinson was governor of Saint Christopher from 1855 to 1859.

* June 18 – Robert M. La Follette, Sr., American politician ( b. 1855 )

* January 12 – Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician ( d. 1855 )

* July 26 – Robert Hamilton Bishop, Scottish-American educator and minister ( d. 1855 )

), The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey ( New York, 1855 ).

For an account of Zachariae and his works, see Robert von Mohl, Geschichte u. Literatur der Staatswissenschaften ( 1855 – 58 ), and Charles Brocher, K. S. Zachariae, sa vie et ses oeuvres ( 1870 ); cf.

In 1855, he married Otelia Butler ( 1837 – 1911 ), the daughter of the late Dr. Robert Butler of Smithfield, who had been Virginia State Treasurer prior to his death in 1853.

The Royal Commercial Travellers Schools were founded in 1845 by John Robert Cuffley, first in Wanstead, moving to Pinner in 1855.

French, who was the stepson of mine operator John Smith, operated the mine until about 1855, when the Scottish immigrant Robert Love, then a young man in his twenties, took control.

The Piano Trio in G minor of 1855 was composed after the death of his daughter Bedřiška ; its style is close to that of Robert Schumann, with hints of Liszt, and the overall tone is elegiac.

Barry spent two months in Paris in 1855 representing, along with his friend and fellow architect Charles Robert Cockerell, English architecture on the juries of the Exposition Universelle ( 1855 ).

Henry George Liddell (; 6 February 1811 – 18 January 1898 ) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, dean ( 1855 – 91 ) of Christ Church, Oxford, headmaster ( 1846 – 55 ) of Westminster School ( where a house is now named after him ), author of A History of Rome ( 1857 ), and co-author ( with Robert Scott ) of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still used by students of Greek.

* Robert Montgomery ( poet ) ( 1807 – 1855 ), English poet and minister

The first biblical scholar to propose an origin for Jubilees was Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ).

In 1855, the north end of the building burned down, and was rebuilt in a Baronial style by the architect and historian Robert William Billings.

In 1855 he married Anna Shaw, daughter of abolitionist Francis Shaw and sister of Robert Gould Shaw of the famed 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

In 1855, he recruited Robert Barlow as the survey's chief draughtsman.