* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

* 1874 – Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author ( d. 1941 )

* 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist ( b. 1874 )

It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.

The discovery of crystals ' rectifying abilities was made by German physicist Ferdinand Braun in 1874.

In 1874 German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun discovered the " unilateral conduction " of crystals.

* 1874 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano ( d. 1935 )

Der Eigene stirner ist pioneer Gay activist publicationAdolf Brand ( 1874 – 1945 ) was a German writer, stirnerist anarchist and pioneering campaigner for the acceptance of male bisexuality and homosexuality.

* 1874 – Eugen Fischer, German physician ( d. 1967 )

* 1874 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist ( d. 1945 )

* 1807 – David Strauss, German theologian and writer ( d. 1874 )

* 1874 – Hermann Wilker, German rower ( d. 1941 )

* 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor ( d. 1874 )

* 1874 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher ( d. 1945 )

In 1874 – 1875, British, German and U. S. expeditions visited Kerguelen to observe the transit of Venus.

This area was named for German doctor Carl Wernicke, who discovered it in 1874 in the course of his research into aphasias ( loss of ability to speak ).

Recognised as part of the Spanish East Indies in 1874, the islands were sold to Germany in 1884, and became part of German New Guinea in 1885.

* 1794 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer ( d. 1874 )

* 1945 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet ( b. 1874 )

* Ludwig Jacoby, ( 1813 – 1874 ), born in Altstrelitz, an author and Methodist clergyman, commissioned as a missionary to St. Louis, Missouri, by the founder of the German Methodist Church in America, William Nast ( 1807 – 1899 ).

Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard ; HMS Challenger during the 1870s ; the USS Tuscarora ( 1873 – 76 ); and the German Gazelle ( 1874 – 76 ).

* June 21 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1874 )

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success.

Although the literary merit of Multatuli's work was widely criticised, he received an unexpected and most valuable ally in Carel Vosmaer who published a book ( The Sower 1874 ) praising him.

* Waldfried ( 1874 ) draws literary inspiration from German unity and the Franco-Prussian War

He was literary reviewer for the New York World ( 1860 – 1870 ); one of the editors of Vanity Fair ; editor of the Aldine ( 1869 – 1874 ), and literary editor of the Mail and the Mail and Express ( 1880 – 1903 ).

From 1874 to 1881, he edited the literary journal Vijenac (" Wreath ").

Krste Petkov Misirkov (; ) ( born 18 November 1874 in Postol, Ottoman Empire ( today Pella, Greece ); died 26 July 1926 in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria ) was a philologist, slavist, historian, ethnographer, publicist author of the first book and scientific magazine in Macedonian where he for the first time outlined the principles of the literary Macedonian language.

Initially having a patriotic impetus, and counting a number of leading literary figures among its supporters ( G. K. Chesterton, Humbert Wolfe, L. A. G. Strong and the novelists H. E. Bates and A. G. Street 1892 – 1966 ) as members, it shortly became a vehicle for Sydney Fowler Wright ( 1874 – 1965 ), now remembered mainly for his genre fiction.

After his return to Boston, in 1874, he devoted himself to office practice and to literary pursuits.

* Alexander Leighton, ( 1800 – 1874 ), writer and literary editor

His first works were in the sphere of literary criticism ; of his treatise On Shakespeare's Dramatic Art ( 1839 ; editions, 1847, 1868, 1874 ), the 3rd ed.

He died in 1874 leaving his elder daughter, Henrietta, as his literary executrix.

Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński ( better known by his pen name, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ; December 21, 1874 – July 4, 1941 ) was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic above all, and translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish.

He achieved his first literary successes with the epics Vionville ( 1874 ) and Sedan ( 1875 ).

* Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ( 1874 — 1941 ), gynecologist, writer, poet, art critic, translator of French literary classics and journalist

He began his literary career in 1874 as a journalist on the Vienna " Fremdenblatt ," later joining the staff of the " Morgenpost.

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 )); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les Fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).