1822 in Germany

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See also:	Other events of 1822; History of Germany • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1822 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 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
- 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

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

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

"Rostocker Pfeilstorch", a white stork, is found in northern Germany with an arrow from central Africa through its neck, demonstrating the fact of bird migration.
The Rhine Province, the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, established from 1822 to 1946.
Röchling SE & Co. KG, a plastics engineering company headquartered in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany is established.
Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., a media publishing house based in Stuttgart, Germany, founded.

Births

2 January – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
6 January-Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
18 April – August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (died 1878)
27 August – Theodor Martens, German painter (died 1884)

Deaths

14 January – Franz Kobell, German painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1749)
22 January – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (born 1786)

William Herschel
16 January – Elisabeth Berenberg, German banker (b. 1749)
23 February – Johann Matthäus Bechstein, German naturalist (born 1757)
3 April – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (born 1747)
27 May – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1772)
25 June – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic writer (born 1776)^[13]
25 August – William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (b. 1738)
26 November – Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian politician (b. 1750)
8 December – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (born 1767)
28 December – Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (born 1755)

References

^ Tikkanen, Amy (30 July 2018). "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
^ ^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.
^ Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.
^ ^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.
^ "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
^ Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
^ 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.
^ 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. pp. 5, 8, 51. Retrieved 16 September 2019 – via da:DIS Danmark.
^ Birgit Röder; R?der (2003). A Study of the Major Novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann. Boydell & Brewer. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-57113-271-0.

[1] Tikkanen, Amy (30 July 2018). "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 September 2022.

[genea-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.

[Bogue-3] Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.

[Olden-4] "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.

[Gotha-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.

[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.

[Statskalender-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. pp. 5, 8, 51. Retrieved 16 September 2019 – via da:DIS Danmark.

[13] Birgit Röder; R?der (2003). A Study of the Major Novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann. Boydell & Brewer. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-57113-271-0.

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