* 1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician ( d. 1939 )

* 1829 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist ( d. 1884 )

* 1677 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1748 )

* 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.

On 9 June the fleet arrived off Malta, then under the ownership of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, ruled by Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim.

Übersetzt und erklärt von Ferdinand R. Prostmeier.

Hilbert obtained his doctorate in 1885, with a dissertation, written under Ferdinand von Lindemann, titled Über invariante Eigenschaften spezieller binärer Formen, insbesondere der Kugelfunktionen (" On the invariant properties of special binary forms, in particular the spherical harmonic functions ").

Those led by Ferdinand von Schill were decimated in the Battle of Stralsund ( 1809 ); many were killed in battle or executed at Napoleon's command in the aftermath.

* 1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer ( d. 1917 )

In 1895 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin attempted to interest both the army and navy in his new dirigibles, but without success.

* 1833 – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer ( d. 1905 )

His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck ( Schönhausen, 13 November 1771 – 22 November 1845 ), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer ; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken ( Potsdam, 24 February 1789 – Berlin ), the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin.

Ferdinand von Lindemann and Hiroshi Umemura showed that the roots may also be expressed in terms of Siegel modular functions, generalizations of the theta functions that appear in the theory of elliptic functions.

In 1882, Ferdinand von Lindemann published a proof that the number π is transcendental.

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt ( 22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835 ) was a Prussian philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin, which was named after him ( and his brother, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt ) in 1949.

Gaeta surrendered in August, and Capua held out until November when its commander, Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, finally negotiated surrender terms when he ran out of ammunition.

A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century.

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin became interested in constructing a " Zeppelin balloon " after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871, where he witnessed the French use of balloons to transport mail during the early part of the war.

Almost simultaneously, similar inventions were made independently in Belgium by Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau ( the phenakistoscope ) and in Austria by Simon von Stampfer ( the stroboscope ).

* March 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor ( b. 1838 )

* May – Student Ferdinand Cohen-Blind fails to assassinate Otto von Bismarck in Unter den Linden in Berlin.

* June 6 – Ferdinand von Wrangel, Baltic German explorer ( b. 1796 / 1797 )

* Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the transcendentality of pi.

Influenced by his tutor Ferdinand von Hochstetter ( who later became the first superintendent of the Imperial Natural History Museum ), Rudolf became very interested in natural sciences, starting a mineral collection at a very early age.

Dunite was named by the German geologist, Ferdinand von Hochstetter in 1859 after Dun Mountain near Nelson, New Zealand.

Geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter wrote after his visit in 1860 that " doubtless thousands of years were required " for their formation.

Ferdinand von Hochstetter carried out a geographic and geological survey of Rotomahana Lake and area at the request of the New Zealand Government.

* July 18 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter ( born 1829 ), geologist.

He then became acquainted with Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and assisted him in the preliminary geological survey which von Hochstetter had undertaken.

Ferdinand von Hochstetter

Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter ( April 30, 1829 – July 18, 1884 ) was a German geologist.

He was born at Esslingen, Württemberg, the son of Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter ( 1787-1860 ), a clergyman and professor at Bonn, who was also a botanist and mineralogist.

Hochstetter Peak on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica is named after Ferdinand von Hochstetter.

The specific scientific name commemorates the Austrian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter.

In 1859 Ferdinand von Hochstetter, an Austrian geologist who traveled through the area, reported a colossal column of steam from the Karapiti Blowhole ( fumarole ), observable from about 20 km away.

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In 1885 he married Emma von Hochstetter, daughter of the German geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter, a close friend of his father.

These were dated by the geologist Ferdinand A. Fouqué, somewhat arbitrarily, to 2000 B. C., by consideration of the superincumbent eruptive stratum.

* June 21 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist ( d. 1904 )

The name rhyolite was introduced into science by the German traveler and geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen after his explorations in the Rocky Mountains in the 1860s.

These were dated by the geologist Ferdinand A. Fouqué, somewhat arbitrarily, to 2000 BC, by consideration of the superincumbent eruptive stratum.

Mortain was the birthplace of Ferdinand André Fouqué ( 1828 – 1904 ), geologist and petrologist.

It was established in 1888 in memory of Ferdinand V. Hayden, a distinguished American geologist and pioneering surveyor of the American West who had extensive ties to the Academy.

Ferdinand Zirkel ( May 20, 1838 – June 11, 1912 ) was a German geologist and petrographer.

Individuals in photo include ( starting at top ): Cleophas Cisney O ' Hara, Sir Archibald Geikie, Frederick Haynes Newell, Henry Barnard Kummel | Henry Barnard Kümmell, George Burbank Shattuck, Rollin D. Salisbury, Arthur Clifford Veatch, Louis Marcus Prindle, Harry Fielding Reid, Charles R. Van Hise | Charles Richard Van Hise, Cleveland Abbe, Jr., George Willis Stose, Thomas Leonard Watson, Edward Vincent D ' Invilliers, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Frederick James Hamilton Merrill, Louis Agricola Bauer, Arthur Coe Spencer, William John McGee, William Bullock Clark, Rufus Mather Bagg, Frank Hall Knowlton, Robert T. Hill | Robert Thomas Hill, Heinrich Ries, Frank Dawson Adams, Arthur Philemon Coleman, Timothy William Stanton, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Samuel Franklin Emmons, George Ferdinand Becker, Albert Berthold Hoen, George Otis Smith, James Furman Kemp, Bailey Willis, David White ( geologist ) | Charles David White, Edward Bennett Mathews, Charles Doolittle Walcott, John Wesley Powell, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Joseph Austin Holmes, Charles Willard Hayes, Leonidas Chalmers Glenn, Henry Shaler Williams.

Ferdinand André Fouqué ( 21 June 1828-7 March 1904 ) was a French geologist and petrologist.

Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden ( September 7, 1829 – December 22, 1887 ) was an American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century.

The wilderness is named after Mount Zirkel, the highest peak in the range at, which itself is named after German geologist Ferdinand Zirkel.

* Ferdinand Zirkel ( 1838 – 1912 ), a German geologist and petrographer

His younger brother, Carl Ferdinand von Roemer, was also a geologist.

Carl Ferdinand von Roemer ( 5 January 1818 – 14 December 1891 ), German geologist, had originally been educated for the legal profession at Göttingen, but became interested in geology, and abandoning law in 1840, studied science at the University of Berlin, where he graduated Ph. D. in 1842.