1811 in Germany

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Events from the year 1811 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)
- Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818^[2]
Grand Duke of Hesse
- Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)^[3]
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-Eisenach
- Karl August (1809–1815)

Principalities

Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)^[6]
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)^[7]
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)^[8]
Duke of Brunswick
- Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)^[9]
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick^[3]
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 Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)^[12]

Events

21 November – German poet Heinrich von Kleist shoots his terminally ill lover Henriette Vogel and then himself, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee near Potsdam.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt established
Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry established

Births

27 January – Ernst Dieffenbach, German scientist (d. 1855)
30 or 31 March – Robert Bunsen, German chemist, inventor (d. 1899)
30 September – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German empress (d. 1890)
25 October – C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian (d. 1887)
21 November – Ludwig Preiss, German-born British botanical collector (d. 1883)
28 November – King Maximilian II of Bavaria (d. 1864)
3 December – Eduard Bendemann, German painter (d. 1889)
5 December – Justus Carl Hasskarl, German explorer, botanist (d. 1894)

Deaths

Heinrich von Kleist

11 January – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai writer and bookseller (b. 1733)
3 February – Johann Beckmann, scientist (b. 1739)^[13]
19 July – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer (b. 1735)^[14]
September – Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, German explorer (b. 1767)
8 September – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
21 November – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (suicide) (b. 1777)^[15]

References

^ "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
^ von Weech, Friedrich. "Karl Ludwig Friedrich". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). p. Onlinefassung. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
^ ^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.
^ "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
^ Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
^ J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
^ 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.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
^ "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.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Beckmann, Johann" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ John Denison Champlin; William Foster Apthorp (1899). Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 454.
^ Stein, Sadie (16 October 2014). "Final Chapter". The Paris Review. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[1] "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.

[KLF-ADB-2] von Weech, Friedrich. "Karl Ludwig Friedrich". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). p. Onlinefassung. Retrieved 25 July 2010.

[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] "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.

[7] Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.

[8] J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.

[:0-9] 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.

[EB1911-10] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.

[Bio-11] "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

[Albinus-12] Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.

[13] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Beckmann, Johann" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[14] John Denison Champlin; William Foster Apthorp (1899). Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 454.

[15] Stein, Sadie (16 October 2014). "Final Chapter". The Paris Review. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

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