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

^ "General German Biography - Wikisource". Retrieved 24 January 2021.
^ Encyclopaedia Britannica (30 July 2018). "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
^ ^a ^b "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
^ 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.
^ J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
^ Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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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[1] "General German Biography - Wikisource". Retrieved 24 January 2021.

[2] Encyclopaedia Britannica (30 July 2018). "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica.

[genea-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.

[Olden-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.

[Bio-8] "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

[Albinus-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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