1819 in Germany

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Events from the year 1819 in Germany.

## Incumbents

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### Kingdoms

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* 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 Hanover
* George III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820)
* Kingdom of Württemberg
* William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

### Grand Duchies

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* 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
* 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
* Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)

### Principalities

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* 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 XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[7]
* Waldeck and Pyrmont
* George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

### Duchies

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* Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
* Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[8]
* Duke of Brunswick
* Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)[9]
* 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)[10]
* Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
* Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)[11]
* Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
* Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)[12]

## Events

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* 23 March – In Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German dramatist August von Kotzebue is assassinated by Karl Ludwig Sand.[13]
* 1 July – German astronomer Johann Georg Tralles discovers what will be called the Great Comet of 1819
* 20 September – Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederation

## Publications

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*     * E. T. A. Hoffmann
* The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
* Das Fräulein von Scuderi: Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten (novella published in Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1820)
* Joseph von Eichendorff – Das Marmorbild
* Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
* Jacob Grimm – Deutsche Grammatik

## Births

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* 8 January \- Mary Frances Schervier, Germane founder of two religious congregations of Religious Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, (died 1876)
* 10 January – Karl Heine, German lawyer and entrepreneur (died 1888)
* 8 February – Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, German writer and politician (died 1904)
* 10 February – Albert Schwegler, German philosopher and Protestant theologian. (died 1857)
* 11 February – Ottilie Assing, German feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist. (died 1884)
* 17 February
* Philipp Jaffé, German historian and philologist (died 1870)
* Max Schneckenburger, German writer (died 1849)
* 20 February – Ludwig Simon, German lawyer and politician (died 1872)
* 22 February – Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher (died 1888)
* 25 February – Peter Friedhofen, German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians (died 1860)
* 1 March – Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, German surgeon (died 1895)
* 24 March – Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist (died 1889)
* 26 March – Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist (died 1895)
* 31 March – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (died 1901)
* 11 April – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (died 1895)
* 24 April – Klaus Groth, German poet (died 1899)
* 2 May – Gustav Becker, German clockmaker (died 1885)
* 7 May – Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German-Baltic astronomer (died 1905)
* 27 May – George V of Hanover, German monarch of kingdom Hannover (died 1878)
* 17 June – Albert Dulk, German writer (died 1884)
* 20 June – Jacques Offenbach, German composer (died 1880)
* 22 June – August Wöhler, German railway engineer (died 1914)
* 3 July – Théodore Gouvy, German composer (died 1898)
* 6 July – Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist (died 1892)
* 16 July – Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold, German mathematician (died 1884)
* 20 July – Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, German publicist and philosopher (died 1880)
* 12 August – Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (died 1874)
* 22 August – Johann Nepomuk Brischar, German Roman Catholic church historian (died 1897)
* 26 August – Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (died 1861)
* 13 September – Clara Schumann, German composer and pianist (died 1896)
* 22 September – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (died 1897)
* 16 October – Arnold Schaefer, German historian (died 1883)
* 17 October – Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German sovereign (died 1904)
* 25 October – Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist (died 1904)
* 12 November – Daniel Sanders, German lexicographer (died 1897)
* 16 November – Wilhelm Marr, German journalist (died 1904)
* 1 December – Philipp Krementz, German catholic bishop (died 1899)
* 22 December – Franz Abt, German composer and choral conductor (died 1885)
* 23 December – Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, German gynecologist and obstetrician (died 1892)
* 26 December – Hermann Blumenau, German pharmacist (died 1899)
* 30 December – Theodor Fontane, German writer (died 1898)[14]

## Deaths

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* 12 January – Benedikte Naubert, German writer (born 1752)
* 28 January – Johann Karl Wezel, German poet (born 1747)
* 10 March – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (born 1743)[15]
* 23 March – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (born 1761)[13]
* 30 June – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, German composer (born 1746)
* 20 July – Xaver Hohenleiter, German criminal (born 1788)
* 29 July – Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel, German writer (born 1779)
* 12 September – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (born 1742)
* 20 October – Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, German philosopher (born 1780)
* 5 December – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (born 1750)

## References

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1. ^ "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
2. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b "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. ^ "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
8. ^ Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
9. ^ 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.
10. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
11. ^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
12. ^ Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1829) [1st pub.:1801]. Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Stats-Calender for Aaret 1829 [Court and State Calendar of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1829] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. p. 5, 8, 51. Retrieved 16 September 2019 - via da:DIS Danmark.
13. ^ a b Dumas père, Alexandre. "Karl Ludwig Sand". Celebrated Crimes. Vol. IV. Wildside Classics. pp. 13–76.
14. ^ Otto Drude (1994). Theodor Fontane. Insel Verlag. p. 11.
15. ^ Thomas H. Curran (2013). Doctrine and Speculation in Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre. De Gruyter. p. 6\. ISBN 9783110876918.

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