* 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.

* 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 ).

In 1874, German literary historian Karl Elze dated both The Tempest and Henry VIII — traditionally labeled as Shakespeare's last plays — to the years 1603 – 04.

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 )

The name was really derived from the Norwegian blåhval, coined by Svend Foyn shortly after he had perfected the harpoon gun ; the Norwegian scientist G. O. Sars adopted it as the Norwegian common name in 1874.

First synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939 by the Swiss scientist Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts.

* Ivan Grave ( 1874 – 1960 ), Russian scientist

* Clemens von Pirquet ( 1874 – 1929 ), scientist and pediatrician

Johann Philipp Reis ( January 7, 1834 – January 14, 1874 ) was a self-taught German scientist and inventor.

Much of Krogh's work was carried out in collaboration with his wife, Marie Krogh ( 1874 – 1943 ), a renowned scientist in her own right.

She was one of three mediums examined by William Crookes, the prominent scientist, between 1871 and 1874, who said of her ability to produce raps:

* Else von Richthofen ( 1874 – 1973 ), German social scientist and feminist

The scientific stature of the Museum was established under the curatorship of Gerard Krefft, who served until 1874, himself a well-published scientist.

Ernest William Barnes FRS ( 1 April 1874 – 29 November 1953 ) was an English mathematician and scientist who later became a theologian and bishop.

Pedro Paulet Mostajo ( July 2, 1874 in Arequipa, Peru – 1945 in Buenos Aires, Argentina ) was a Peruvian scientist who allegedly in 1895 was the first person to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine and, in 1900, the first person to build a modern rocket propulsion system.

The principles of psychodynamics were first introduced in the 1874 publication Lectures on Physiology by German scientist Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke.

* Charles Edward Merriam ( 1874 – 1953 ), American political scientist

It was first described, in 1874, by Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum in Die Katatonie oder das Spannungsirresein ( Catatonia or Tension Insanity ).

In 1874 Karl Ferdinand Braun observed conduction and rectification in metallic sulphides, and Arthur Schuster found that a copper oxide layer on wires has rectification properties that ceases when the wires are cleaned.

Under the influence of this doctrine, and of Phenomenology, the Hungarian-born German sociologist Karl Mannheim ( 1893 – 1947 ) gave impetus to the growth of the sociology of knowledge with his Ideologie und Utopie ( 1929, translated and extended in 1936 as Ideology and Utopia ), although the term had been introduced five years earlier by the co-founder of the movement, the German philosopher, phenomenologist and social theorist Max Scheler ( 1874 – 1928 ), in Versuche zu einer Soziologie des Wissens ( 1924, Attempts at a Sociology of Knowledge ).

However, the print runs of these rather expensive albums did not come close to that produced in 1909 by the German publisher Karl Robert Langewiesche ( 1874 – 1931 ): His choice of watercolours, drawings and text by Carl Larsson, titled Das Haus in der Sonne ( The House in the Sun ), immediately became one of the German publishing industry's best-sellers of the year-40, 000 copies sold in three months, and more than 40 print runs have been produced up to 2001.

Karl Rudolf Hagenbach ( March 4, 1801 – June 7, 1874 ) was a Swiss church theologian and historian.

The rectifying property of crystals was discovered in 1874 by Karl Ferdinand Braun, and crystal detectors were developed and applied to radio receivers in 1904 by Jagadish Chandra Bose, G. W. Pickard and others.

* Karl Kraus ( 1874 – 1936 ), writer

* Karl, Prince of Bavaria ( 1874 – 1927 ).

* Karl Marx-visited Ryde for health reasons in the summer of 1874, staying in Nelson Street.

* 1874: Karl Schenk

Karl Kraus ( April 28, 1874 – June 12, 1936 ) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet.

) subsequently entitled Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung ( History of German poetry ; 5th edition, by Karl Bartsch, 1871 – 1874 ) brought him the appointment to a regular professorship of history and literature at Göttingen.

* Karl Heim, theologian ( 1874 – 1958 )

Karl married on 7 Jan 1895 in Herdringen, Arnsberg to Countess Elisabeth Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht ( 1874 – 1909 ), they had no children.

Later came Peter Cornelius ( Der Barbier von Bagdad, 1858 ), Hermann Goetz ( Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung, 1874 ) and Karl Goldmark ( Die Königin von Saba, 1875 ).

He left behind him at his death a mass of unpublished notes, part of which has been collected and published by his disciples Heinrich Ahrens ( 1808 – 1874 ), Hermann Karl, Freiherr von Leonhardi ( 1809-1875 ), Guillaume Tiberghien ( 1819-1901 ) and others.

* Karl Michael von Wrangel ( Karl Yegorovich Wrangel, 1794 – 1874 ), Baron Russian cavalry general

Many of Maurenbrecher's works are concerned with the Reformation, among them being England im Reformationszeitalter ( Düsseldorf, 1866 ); Karl V. und die deutschen Protestanten ( Düsseldorf, 1865 ); Studien und Skizzen zur Geschichte der Reformationszeit ( Leipzig, 1874 ); and the incomplete Geschichte der Katholischen Reformation ( Nördlingen, 1880 ).

Karl Gustav Homeyer ( August 13, 1795-October 20, 1874 ), German jurist, was born at Wolgast in Pomerania.

Elisabeth Franziska first married Ferdinand Karl Viktor, archduke of Austria-Este ( 1821 – 1849 ), and later Karl Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Teschen ( 1818 – 1874 ).

Her correspondence with David Veit and with Karl August was published in Leipzig, in 1861 and 1874 – 1875 respectively.