He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

* 1885 – Carl Goßler, German rower ( d. 1914 )

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

* 1885 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist ( b. 1804 )

* Karl Benz ( 1844 – 1929 ), German engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who built the first patented automobile in 1885

Europeans, primarily the French, German, and Belgians, arrived in the area in 1885.

* 1885 – Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal ( d. 1953 )

* 1808 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter ( d. 1885 )

* 1804 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist ( d. 1885 )

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ( June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964 ) was a German neuropathologist, who first described the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

* 1885 – Ernst Busch, German field marshal ( d. 1945 )

* 1885 – Karl Genzken, German Nazi physician ( d. 1957 )

* 1885 – Eduard Künneke, German composer ( d. 1953 )

* 1885 – Ernst Bloch, German philosopher ( d. 1977 )

* 1800 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician ( d. 1885 )

* 1837 – Ernst Laas, German philosopher ( d. 1885 )

Karl Bernhardovic Radek () ( 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939 ) was a socialist active in the Polish and German movements before World War I and an international Communist leader after the Russian Revolution.

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.

A German trading company settled on the islands in 1885.

* 1944 – Christian Wirth, German police and SS officer ( b. 1885 )

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

* 1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German scientist ( d. 1954 )

* 1812 – Karl Schwarz, German theologian ( d. 1885 )

* 1885 – Hans Cloos, German geologist ( d. 1951 )

* 1885 – Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect ( d. 1966 )

His two brothers Franc Melik ( born 1885 ), and Ivan Melik ( born 1894 ) were killed in a grove known as Kozler's Thicket (, named after its former owner, Peter Kozler ) on November 25, 1943 together with 12 other victims by a unit of the collaborationist Slovenian Home Guard militia under the command of Franc Frakelj.

However, in 1885, the brothers were persuaded to join the temperance movement, and hence poured their entire stock into the gutters of the High Street.

The city of Lipscomb was first incorporated on June 30, 1910, and was named for L. Y. Lipscomb, one of three brothers who first settled in the area in 1885.

Ja ’ far Pasha al-Askari was born on September 15, 1885 in Baghdad, when it was still part of the Ottoman Empire, the fourth of five brothers with one sister.

In 1885 the Kidson brothers decided to retire, and agreed to merge the firm with the Clydesdale Bank.

In 1865, Elias established the Howe Machine Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut that was operated by the Stockwell brothers, his brothers-in-law, from 1867 until about 1885.

Aéroplanes Morane-Saulnier is a French aircraft manufacturing company formed in October 1911 by Raymond Saulnier ( 1881 – 1964 ) and the Morane brothers, Leon ( 1885 – 1918 ) and Robert ( 1886 – 1968 ).

Homer Lusk Collyer ( November 6, 1881 – March 1947 ) and Langley Wakeman Collyer ( October 3, 1885 – March 1947 ), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became famous because of their bizarre nature and compulsive hoarding.

Few weeks later in April 1885 the German Dehnhardt brothers concluded a contract with the Sultan of Witu ( former ruler of Pate ) on the Kenya Coast near Lamu which was also put under official German protection.

Grace Bros had a long and rich history of retailing in Sydney following its founding by the Grace brothers, Albert Edward and Joseph Neal Grace, in 1885.

– Philadelphia, Lea brothers & Co., 1885

The de Reszke brothers were siblings of the soprano Josephine de Reszke ( 1855-1891 ), who gave up a promising operatic career in Paris in 1885 at the request of her aristocratic husband.

Geefs was born at Antwerp, the eldest of six brothers in a family of sculptors, the best-known of whom are Joseph Geefs ( 1808 – 1885, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1836 ) and Jean Geefs ( 1825 – 1860, and winner of the prize in 1846 ).

The Reich was represented there by the German Residents: Gustav Denhardt ( 1856 – 1917 ; in office 8 April 1885 – 1 July 1890 ) and his deputy Clemens Andreas Denhardt ( 1852 – 1928 ).

His eldest son, Gustav, wrote several well-known historical works, namely, Gustav Adolf ( Leipzig, 1869 – 1870 ), a study of the Gustavus Adolphus, the King of Sweden during the Thirty Years War, and Herzog Bernhard von Weimar ( Leipzig, 1885 ), a study of Duke Bernhard, another able Protestant General during the Thirty Years War ; an Historischer Handatlas ( Leipzig, 1885 ), a geographic analysis of historical and territorial changes, and several writings on various events of the Thirty Years ' War.

* See M. Duncker, Johann Gustav Droysen, ein Nachruf ( Berlin, 1885 ); and Dahlmann-Waitz, Quellenkunde der deutschen Geschichte ( Leipzig, 1906 ).

* Gustav Nachtigal ( 1834 – 1885 ), doctor and explorer in Africa.

* November 12 – Gustav Merkel, organist and composer ( d. 1885 )

** 14 July 1884-19 July 1884 Gustav Nachtigal ( b. 1834-d. 1885 )

** 5 July 1884-6 July 1884 Gustav Nachtigal ( b. 1834-d. 1885 ), the Reichskommissar for West Africa *

* from 24 April 1884 as German South West Africa protectorate, only incumbent ( 7 October 1884-May 1885 ) Gustav Nachtigal ( b. 1834-d. 1885 ; see above ), staying on shortly for the status transition

The revival was part of a wider national movement in the period around the First World War, and contributed to the creation of a " national " or " pastoral " school of classical music which incorporated traditional songs or motifs, as can be seen in the compositions of Percy Grainger ( 1882 – 1961 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 1872 – 1951 ), George Butterworth ( 1885 – 1916 ), Gustav Holst ( 1874 – 1934 ) and Frederick Delius ( 1862 – 1934 ).

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ( 9 July 1809 – 13 May 1885 ) was a German physician, pathologist and anatomist.

Their first son Gustav was born four months later, on 15 May 1885.

* Gustav Hitler ( born 10 May 1885, died of diphtheria on 8 December 1887 in Braunau am Inn )

Gustav Nachtigal ( 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885 ) was a German explorer of Central and West Africa.

* Gustav Steinbrecht ( 1808 – 1885 )

The city district, most likely named after the street Vasagatan, in its turn named after King Gustav Vasa in 1885, was still a peripheral part of the city in the early 1880s.

The fragment was originally discovered in Al-Fayyum, Egypt, and was translated in 1885 by Gustav Bickell after it was found in the papyrus collection of Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria in Vienna.

On 1 July 1885 Nikisch married Amelie Heussner ( 1862 – 1938 ), a singer and actress, who had been engaged the preceding years at the Kassel court theatre with Gustav Mahler.