1798 in Germany

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Events from the year 1798 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

• Francis II (5 July 1792 –6 August 1806)

Important Electors

• Bavaria - Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
• Saxony - Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 –20 December 1806) ^[1]

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 –7 June 1840) ^[2]

Grand duchies

• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 –1 February 1837) ^[3]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Charles II (2 June 1794 –6 November 1816) ^[4]
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg
  • Wilhelm (6 July 1785 –2 July 1823) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign. ^[5]
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 –21 May 1829) ^[5]
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
  • Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
  • George William (13 February 1787 –1860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 –28 April 1807) ^[6]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 –19 August 1835)
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
  • Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (12 May 1778 – 28 June 1800)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 –24 September 1812)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Leopold III (16 December 1751 –9 August 1817) ^[7]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick ^[3]
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
  • Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800)
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Georg I (1782–1803) ^[8]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 –25 March 1816) ^[9]
• Duke of Württemberg
  • Frederick I (22 December 1797 –30 October 1816) ^[10]

Other

• Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Louis I (6 April 1790 –14 August 1806) ^[3]

Events

Berlin in 1798

• Building of the first major example of Egyptian Revival architecture, Karlsruhe Synagogue in Baden, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.
• Friedrich von Schiller – Wallensteins Lager
• 12 October – The rebuilt Weimarer Hoftheater are inaugurated with the first performance of the first part of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein : Das Lager (The Camp), directed by Goethe.
• Caroline von Wolzogen (anonymously) – Agnes von Lilien (first complete book publication, in 2 vols)
• Francis Lathom – The Midnight Bell: a German story, founded on incidents in real life
• Cassella chemical and pharmaceutical company founded
• M. M. Warburg & Co. bank founded

Births

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

• 25 March – Christoph Gudermann, German mathematician (d. 1852)
• 30 March – Luise Hensel, German religious author and poet (died 1876)
• 2 April – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d. 1874)
• 11 September – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (d. 1895) ^[11]

Deaths

• 20 January – Christian Cannabich, German musician and composer (born 1731) ^[12]
• 11 April – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
• 29 April – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
• 25 May – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754)
• 20 November – Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (born 1766) ^[13]

References

1. "General German Biography - Wikisource" . Retrieved 24 January 2021.
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica (30 July 2018). "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
3. Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 38.
4. Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
5. "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
6. Apfelstedt, F.; Apfelstedt, Heinrich Friedrich Theodor (1996). Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit. Thüringer Chronik-Verlag Müllerott. ISBN   978-3-910132-29-0.
7. J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
8. "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
9. Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN   3-7921-0320-6.
10. David, Saul (1998). Prince of pleasure : the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN   978-0-87113-739-5 . Retrieved 24 January 2021.
11.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Neumann, Franz Ernst". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
12. Greene, David Mason (2007). Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 341. ISBN   978-0-385-14278-6 . Retrieved 7 December 2011.
13. Rönnau, Klaus: "Fleischmann, Friedrich", in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), ISBN   0-333-73432-7

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