1810 in Germany

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Events from the year 1810 in Germany.

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) ^[1]
• Kingdom of Bavaria
  • Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825)
• Kingdom of Saxony
  • Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
  • Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
  • Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811)
• Grand Duke of Hesse
  • Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830) ^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837) ^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816) ^[3]
• 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. ^[4]
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829) ^[4]
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
  • Karl August (1809–1815)

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
  • George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867) ^[5]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
  • Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851) ^[6]
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
  • Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800 – 29 January 1817)
• 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 Brunswick
  • Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815) ^[8]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick ^[2]
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826) ^[9]
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866) ^[10]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816) ^[11]

Events

• 27 April – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise .
• 16 May – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zu Farbenlehre ( Theory of Colours ). ^[12]
• 12 October – First Oktoberfest: Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Date unknown

Goethe publishes Theory of Colours

• Friedrich Krupp establishes a steel foundry in Essen.
• Germaine de Staël's study of Germany De l'Allemagne is published in Paris but suppressed by order of Napoleon.
• Brandenburger Symphoniker established.
• Prussian Staff College established.

Births

Robert Schumann

Theodor Schwann

• 29 January – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
• 24 May – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, founder of European Reform Judaism (d. 1874)
• 8 June – Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist (d. 1856) ^[13]
• 9 June – Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor (d. 1849) ^[14]
• 17 July – Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver (died 1868)
• 20 July – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (d. 1908) ^[15]
• 11 October – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (d. 1884)
• 7 December – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)

Deaths

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

• 23 January – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist (b. 1776)
• 14 March – Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, German historian (born 1752)
• 1 May – Christoph Meiners, German philosopher (born 1747)
• 19 July – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
• 11 November – Johan Zoffany, German-born painter (b. 1733) ^[16]
• 2 December – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (b. 1777)

References

1. "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
2. 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.
3. Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
4. "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
5. "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
6. Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
7. J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
8. Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766.
9. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I."  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
10. "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
11. Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN   3-7921-0320-6.
12. Götz Hoeppe, Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life (Princeton University Press, 2007) p126
13. John Daverio (10 April 1997). Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age". Oxford University Press. p. 29. ISBN   978-0-19-983931-5.
14. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nicolaï, Otto"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 662.
15.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Blumenthal, Leonhard". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.