In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus extrapolated the hypothesis of the exponential nature of forgetting.

Hermann Ebbinghaus ran a limited, incomplete study on himself and published his hypothesis in 1885 as Über das Gedächtnis ( later translated into English as Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology ).

* 1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician ( d. 1955 )

** Hermann ( Werner ) von Siemens ( 1885, Berlin-1986 ), nephew of Werner von Siemens

* Hermann Hoth ( 1885 – 1971 ), German military officer

* Hermann von Siemens ( 1885 – 1986 ), former head of German electronics company Siemens AG

* Hermann Weyl ( 1885 – 1955 ), German mathematician

Hermann von Siemens ( August 9, 1885 – October 13, 1986 ) was a German industrialist who became head of the German electrical and electronics company Siemens AG in 1941 and served until 1956.

Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, ForMemRS (; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955 ) was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist.

K. Chandrasekharan, Hermann Weyl, 1885 – 1985, Centenary lectures delivered by C. N. Yang, R. Penrose, A. Borel, at the ETH Zürich Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo – 1986, published for the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich.

** A. Stern, Hermann Hettner, ein Lebensbild ( 1885 )

See Brohm, Johann von Aldringen ( Halle, 1882 ), and Hermann Hallwich, Johann von Aldringen ( Leipzig, 1885 ); also Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, s. v.

The first person to describe the learning curve was Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885.

Selections from his literary remains were published by R. Krauss in Eduard Mörike als Gelegenheitsdichter ( 1895 ), and his correspondence with Hermann Kurz, Moritz von Schwind, and Theodor Storm, by J. Bachtold ( 1885 – 1891 ); an edition of Mörike's Ausgewählte Briefe (“ Selected letters ”), in 2 vols., appeared 1903-1904.

* in Tanganyika, the area acquired on 17 February 1885 by Carl Peters for the Deutsche Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft ( DOAG, ' German East African Company ', that was initially under an Administrator: 27 May 1885-8 February 1888 Karl Peters ), since the proclamation of the German East African protectorate ( 7 May 1885-1 July 1890 ) over Witu in Kenya ; contested by Britain ; on 28 April 1888 Germany obtains a lease of the coastal strip from the Sultan of Zanzibar ), a single Reichskommissar is appointed ( 8 February 1888-21 February 1891: Hermann von Wissmann ( b. 1853-d. 1905 ), after him Governors of 1 January 1891 when proclaimed German East Africa colony ( Deutsch Ostafrika ), ending the ' private ' DOAG rule.

* Helmholtz, Hermann and Ellis, Alexander J., On the Sensations of Tone, Second English Edition, 1885, Dover Publications

Other theorists, such as Leonhard Euler ( 1739 ), Hermann von Helmholtz ( 1863 / 1885 ), Arthur von Oettingen ( 1866 ), Hugo Riemann ( who should not be confused with the famous mathematician Bernhard Riemann ), and Christopher Longuet-Higgins ( 1978 ) have modeled pitch relationships using two-dimensional ( or higher-dimensional ) lattices, under the name of Tonnetz.

In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus ( 1850 — 1909 ) continued the study of learning.

* Ebbinghaus, Hermann ( 1885 ).

* Hermann Keller ( 1885 – 1967 ), German church musician und musicologist

Hermann von Fehling ( 9 June 1812 – 1 July 1885 ) was a German chemist, famous as the developer of Fehling's solution used for estimation of sugar.

It is the birthplace of writer and editor Hermann Schlüter ( 1851 – 1919 ), the mathematician Hermann Weyl ( 1885 – 1955 ), and the medievalist Heinz Woehlk ( 1944-).

Julius Ebbinghaus ( 1885, Berlin – 1981, Marburg an der Lahn ) was a German philosopher, one of the closest followers of Immanuel Kant active in the twentieth century.

The adoption of the radical Pittsburgh Platform in 1885, which dismissed observance of the ritual commandments and Jewish peoplehood as " anachronistic ", created a permanent wedge between the Reform movement and more traditional American Jews.

* 1885 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American prince and businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume ( d. 1935 )

The office was created in 1885, four years before the enactment of the Meiji Constitution.

Michigan Tech was founded in 1885 as the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and was created to train mining engineers to operate the local copper mines.

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

When there was a redistribution of Parliamentary seats to take effect at the 1885 general election, a new county division of Bridgwater was created.

In 1885, they created the first carburetor, which mixed evaporated gasoline with air to allow its efficient use as fuel.

The Legislative Assembly created Gilliam County on February 25, 1885, from the eastern third of Wasco County after residents complained that they were too far from the county seat in The Dalles.

Ward County was created by the 1885 Dakota Territory legislature and named for Mark Ward, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Counties during the session.

The county was created by the 1885 territorial legislature and was organized on May 18, 1885.

Eddy County was created by the 1885 territorial legislature from the northern half of Foster County and named for Ezra B. Eddy, a Fargo banker who had died a few weeks earlier.

Bingham County was created January 13, 1885, and named after Henry H. Bingham, a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of William Bunn, Idaho's Territorial Governor.

Archuleta County was created by the Colorado legislature on April 14, 1885, out of western Conejos County.

In 1885 the explorer Archibald Meston described the Barron Falls in flood where the raging waters " rush together like wild horses as they enter the straight in the dread finish of their last race ... ( where ) the currents of air created by the cataract waved the branches of the trees hundreds of feet overhead ... the rock shook like a mighty steamer tumbling with the vibrations of the screw.

The Nebraska legislature created the Insane Asylum in Norfolk in 1885 ; it accepted its first patients in 1888.

Portions of the township were taken to form Cape Island Borough ( March 8, 1848, now known as Cape May city ), Cape May Point borough ( created April 19, 1878, restored to Lower Township on April 8, 1896, recreated April 6, 1908 ), Holly Beach ( April 14, 1885, now part of Wildwood city ), South Cape May ( August 27, 1894, restored to Lower Township after the borough was dissolved on April 30, 1945 ), Wildwood Crest ( April 6, 1910 ) and North Cape May ( March 19, 1928, restored to Lower Township after it was dissolved on April 30, 1945 ).

Thirteen years later, in 1885, the Borough of North Plainfield was created from a section of the subdivided land.

The district was created by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1885 from the Amt Wittmund, the Amt Esens and the City of Esens.

The Cleveland constituency had been created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, by the division of the North Riding constituency, and was succeeded by the Cleveland and Whitby for the February 1974 general election.

From 1885 it was in the Aylesbury constituency, in 1950 it formed part of the South Buckinghamshire seat and in 1974 the current Chesham and Amersham constituency was created.

* Miroslav Kraljević ( 1885 – 1913 ), born in Gospić, family originally from Požega area, painter, among the founders of Croatian modern painting, created his most important works in Požega

In 1885 the Prussian government created districts in the newly acquired provinces.

For " Kindergarten Chimes " ( 1885 ) she created some of the lyrics, music, and arrangements.

Fantômas () is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain ( 1885 – 1969 ) and Pierre Souvestre ( 1874 – 1914 ).