1826 in Germany

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Events from the year 1826 in Germany

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) ^[1]
• Kingdom of Bavaria
  • Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
• Kingdom of Saxony
  • Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
• Kingdom of Hanover
  • George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
  • William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
  • Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830) ^[2]
• 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
  • George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860) ^[3]
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
  • Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
  • George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867) ^[4]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
  • Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851) ^[5]
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
  • Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836) ^[6]
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871) ^[7]
• Duke of Brunswick
  • Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830) ^[8]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - 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]

Events

• July – Ludwig van Beethoven puts the finishing touches on the String Quartet in C sharp Minor, Opus 131, the jewel in the crown of his late string quartets.
• Ludwig van Beethoven composes the Große Fuge .

Births

• February 16- Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1888)
• March 29 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist, politician (d. 1900)

Carlo Collodi

Bernhard Riemann

• August 21 – Carl Gegenbaur, German anatomist, professor (d. 1903)
• September 17 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)

Deaths

Carl Maria von Weber

Joseph von Fraunhofer

• March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (b. 1751)
• April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader (b. 1757)
• May 16 – Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, consort of Alexander I of Russia (b. 1779)
• June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
• June 7 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (b. 1787)

• November 23 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)

References

1. Tikkanen, Amy (30 July 2018). "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
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. Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp.  287.
4. "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
5. Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
6. "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
7. Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
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.