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Events from the year 1839 in Germany
Frederick Augustus I was a member of the House of Wettin who reigned as the last Elector of Saxony from 1763 to 1806 and as the first King of Saxony from 1806 to 1827. He was also Duke of Warsaw from 1807 to 1815, and a legitimate candidate to the Polish throne.
Augustus II, most commonly known as Augustus the Strong, was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in the years 1697–1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
Henriette Julie Herz is best known for the "salonnieres" or literary salons that she started with a group of emancipated Jews in Prussia.
Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann was a German-Jewish painter.
Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel was a German novelist and translator.
Events from the year 1832 in Germany.
Events from the year 1847 in Germany.
Events from the year 1846 in Germany.
Events from the year 1845 in Germany.
Events from the year 1843 in Germany.
Events from the year 1842 in Germany.
Events from the year 1841 in Germany
Events from the year 1840 in Germany
Events from the year 1838 in Germany
Events from the year 1829 in Germany
Events from the year 1812 in Germany.
Events from the year 1809 in Germany.
Events from the year 1799 in Germany.
Events from the year 1797 in Germany.
Van der Kiste, John (2004), George III's Children (revised ed.), Stroud, United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing Ltd, ISBN 978-0-7509-3438-1