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1798 in Germany
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1798
Events from the year 1798 in Germany.
Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire
Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)
Important Electors
Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 176320 December 1806)General German Biography - Wikisource https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Allgemeine_Deutsche_Biographie 24 January 2021
Kingdoms
Kingdom of Prussia
Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 17977 June 1840)Encyclopaedia Britannica 30 July 2018 Frederick William III https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III Encyclopaedia Britannica
Grand duchies
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Frederick Francis I– (24 April 17851 February 1837)
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charles II (2 June 17946 November 1816) Huish Robert Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third T. Kelly 1821 170
Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Wilhelm (6 July 17852 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.Oldenburg Royal Family http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm Monarchies of Europe https://web.archive.org/web/20060317161934/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm 1 January 2021 17 March 2006
Peter I (2 July 182321 May 1829)
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities
Schaumburg-Lippe
George William (13 February 17871860)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Louis Frederick II (13 April 179328 April 1807) Thüringer Chronik-Verlag Müllerott 978-3-910132-29-0 Apfelstedt F. Apfelstedt Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit 1996
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 179419 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 176324 September 1812)
Duchies
Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold III (16 December 17519 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
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)http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php Biografie Georg I (German) Meininger Museen 8 September 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20110915152148/http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php 15 September 2011 dead
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816)Albinus Robert Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg 1985 3-7921-0320-6 Leer 371 de
Duke of Württemberg
Frederick I (22 December 179730 October 1816)David Saul http://archive.org/details/princeofpleasure00davi Prince of pleasure : the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency 1998 New York : Atlantic Monthly Press 978-0-87113-739-5 24 January 2021
Other
Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Louis I (6 April 179014 August 1806)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 https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA38 1768 Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel Bourdeaux fr 38
Events
thumb|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
thumb|right|110px|August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
31 January – Christine Genast, actress, singer and pianist (d. 1860)Eisenberg Ludwig Ludwig Eisenberg (writer) Ludwig Eisenberg's großes biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert 1903 P. List Leipzig 314 https://archive.org/details/ludwigeisenberg00eiseuoft/page/314/mode/2up de
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)Neumann, Franz Ernst
17 December – Wilhelmine von Wrochem, flutist, singer and actress (d. 1839)Eisenberg Ludwig Ludwig Eisenberg (writer) Ludwig Eisenberg's grosses biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Buhne im 19. Jahrhundert 1903 P. List Leipzig 1151 https://archive.org/details/ludwigeisenberg00eiseuoft/page/1150/mode/2up de
Deaths
20 January – Christian Cannabich, German musician and composer (born 1731)Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers Greene David Mason 2007 Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd 978-0-385-14278-6 341 https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC December 7, 2011
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)Rönnau, Klaus: "Fleischmann, Friedrich", in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), 0-333-73432-7
References
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