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1799 in Germany
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1799
Events from the year 1799 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
December 3 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
Frankenthal Porcelain Factory closed by the French forces.
Births
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January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (died 1872)
May 26 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (died 1853)
March 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, German astronomer (d. 1875)
March 28 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician, noted for reporting the symptoms of Graves–Basedow disease (d. 1854)
October 18 – Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist (d. 1868)
Eduard Clemens Fechner, German portrait painter and etcher (died 1861)
Deaths
February 1 – Ferdinand Kobell, German painter and engraver (born 1740)
February 16 – Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1724)
February 18 – Johann Hedwig, German bryologist (born 1730)
February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile (b. 1742)
March 18 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor (born 1717)
March 29 – Helena Dorothea von Schönberg, German industrialist (d. 1729)
References
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