1796 in Germany

none November 2023 1796 Events from the year 1796 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 II (17 August 1786 – 16 November 1797)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 II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (20 May 1795 – 23 December 1797)David Saul http://archive.org/details/princeofpleasure00davi Prince of pleasure: the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency 1998 Atlantic Monthly Press New York 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 29 March: Carl Friedrich Gauß determines a construction method for the heptadecagon. thumb|Heptadecagon 7 August: Württemberg cedes its property on the left bank of the Rhine, Mömpelgard, to France in the Peace of Paris in exchange for the promise of later compensation. 25 August: In a separate peace between Sigismund von Reitzenstein on behalf of the Margraviate of Baden and France, Baden has to cede its possessions on the left bank of the Rhine to France and make high reparation payments. In addition, the escaped Margrave Karl Friedrich is supposed to renounce his status as imperial prince. 2 September: Under pressure from its citizens, after experiencing French occupation in the War of the First Coalition, the imperial city of Nuremberg concludes a treaty that will place the city under Prussian sovereignty. Confirmation by the Prussian government did not materialize later due to foreign policy considerations and the necessary assumption of the Nuremberg debt burden. 3 September: In the First Coalition War, Archduke Charles of Austria and his army defeat France's troops under the command of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan in the Battle of Würzburg . The second defeat after the previous Battle of Amberg on 24 August caused Jourdan to resign his command. Ludwig van Beethoven dedicates his three piano sonatas Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 2 and Piano Sonata No. 3 to his teacher Joseph Haydn. Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths publishes the work Gymnastik für die Jugend ( Gymnastics for Youth: Or a practical guide to Delightful and Amusing exercises for the Use of Schools, An Essay Toward the Necessary Improvement of Education Chiefly as It Relates to Body), in which, among other things, rules for the game of baseball can be found for the first time.Todd Jan Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800–1870 1998 Mercer University Press 0865545618 60 Souls of fire in iron hearts https://books.google.com/books?id=W1PnCu9k6OEC&pg=PA60 Births January 1 January Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier, German philologist (died 1855) 7 January Peter Nead, German Baptist Brethren theologian (died 1877) 8 January Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann, German metallurgist (died 1863) 21 January Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, German princess and painter (died 1880) 23 January Karl Ernst Claus, Baltic-German chemist, naturalist (died 1864) 29 January Peter Joseph Elvenich, German theologian and philosopher (died 1886) 31 January Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann, German astronomer (died 1840) February 21 February Prince George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince (died 1865) 28 February Heinrich Carl Breidenstein, German musicologist (died 1876) 29 February – Germanicus Mirault, surgeon (died 1879) March 8 March Nicolaus von Weis, German bishop (died 1869) Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx, German physician (died 1877) 11 March – Johann Ludwig Casper, German forensic pathologist (died 1864) 13 March Peter van Bohlen, German orientalist and indologist (died 1840) 22 March – Heinrich Karl Beyrich, German botanist (died 1834) 23 March Julius Friedrich Heinrich Abegg, German criminologist (died 1868) 31 March Theodor Brüggemann, German politician, jurist and educationist (died 1866) Hermann Hupfeld, German theologian (died 1866) April 13 April Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann, German academic (died 1864) 19 April Johann Baptist Friedreich, German forensic pathologist and psychiatrist (died 1862) 24 April Karl Immermann, German writer (died 1840) 27 April Johann F. C. Hessel, German scientist (died 1872) Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony, German princess (died 1865) May 6 May Karl Heinrich Frotscher, German classical philologist (died 1876) Johann Adam Möhler, German theologian (died 1838) 7 May Karl Heinrich Mertens, German botanist and naturalist (died 1830) 9 May Joseph Meyer, German publisher (died 1856) August Pauly, German classical scholar (died 1845) 12 May Franz Mone, German historian (died 1871) 15 May Johann Heinrich Richartz, German merchant (died 1861) 23 May Vince Stingl, Hungarian-German porcelain manufacturer (died 1850) 18 June Friedrich Diercks, first German emigrant in Texas (died 1848) Wilhelm Hemprich, German naturalist and explorer (died 1825) Ernst Mayer, German sculptor (died 1844) 28 June Paul Camille von Denis, German businessman (died 1872) 2 July Michael Thonet, German-Austrian cabinet maker (died 1871) 3 July – Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, German philosopher (died 1862) 12 July Johann Joseph Schmeller, German painter (died 1841) 13 July Gustav Seyffarth, German-American Egyptologist (died 1885) 15 July Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann, German author (died 1847) Karl Follen, German poet, writer and revolutionary (died 1840) 22 July Peter Joseph Lenné, German landscape architect (died 1866) 27 July Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879) Friedrich Julius Richelot, German mathematician (died 1875) 29 July Peter von Hess, German painter (died 1871) 31 July Karl Friedrich Neumann, German orientalist (died 1858) 3 August – Carl Friedrich Naumann, German geologist (died 1873) 6 August Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German-Swiss chemist (died 1868) 10 August Johann Friedrich Naue, German musician (died 1858) Ferdinand Kürnberger, German writer (died 1879) 12 August – Maximilian II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria (died 1864) 13 August Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen, German historian (died 1863) 15 August Jacob Acontius, German philosopher and theologian (died 1865) 16 August Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine, German prince (died 1877) 22 August Wilhelm von Humboldt, German statesman, philosopher, linguist, and educational reformer (died 1835) 26 August Karl Ludwig Hencke, German astronomer (died 1866) 8 September Wilhelm Pape, German lexicographer (died 1864) Karl von Vogelsang, Austrian-German journalist and politician (died 1890) 10 September – Hermann Kopp, German chemist (died 1872) 13 September – Johann Georg Wagler, German naturalist (died 1832) 14 September – Theodor Kliefoth, German Lutheran theologian (died 1895) 15 September Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor and scientist (died 1874) 19 September – Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Baltic German field marshal (died 1874) 22 September Wilhelm Henzen, German archaeologist (died 1887) Friedrich Wilhelm Otto, German philologist (died 1865) 29 September Karl Wilhelm Walch, German theologian (died 1873) Johann Christian Reinhart, German painter (died 1847) 1 October Karl Friedrich Wunder, German photographer (died 1871) 5 October Johann Georg Eccarius, German tailor and trade unionist (died 1889) Johann Adam Hesse, German painter (died 1874) 7 October – Karl Krazeisen, German painter (died 1885) 9 October – Emil Otto Grundmann, German-American painter (died 1890) 13 October Karl Gutzkow, German writer (died 1878) 14 October – Theodor Kotschy, Austrian-German botanist and explorer (died 1866) 17 October – Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter (died 1874) 18 October Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, German physicist (died 1914) 20 October – Moritz von Schwind, German painter (died 1871) October 4 October August Wilhelm Bach, German composer (died 1869) 10 October Franz Gerhard Eschweiler, German botanist (died 1831) 11 October August Ahlborn, German painter (died 1857) 16 October Karl Spindler, German writer (died 1855) 19 October Carl Wagner, German painter known for romantic landscape painting (died 1867) 24 October August von Platen-Hallermünde, German poet (died 1835) 26 October Gottfried Osann, German chemist and physicist (died 1866) 28 October Charles Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg, German politician (died 1854) 31 October Ottilie von Goethe, German writer, editor (died 1872) November 3 November Friedrich Lennig, German writer (died 1838) 13 November Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach, German jurist (died 1857) 14 November Friederike Funk, German soprano (died 1830) 19 November Christian Lorenz Sommer, German classical philologist (died 1846) 25 November Andreas von Ettingshausen, German mathematician, physicist (died 1878) 30 November Carl Loewe, German composer (died 1869) December 20 December – Simon Meister, German painter (died 1844) 29 December Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (died 1877) Ferdinand von Wrangel, Baltic German explorer and Russian admiral (died 1870) Deaths January–March 28 February – Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, German violinist (born 1739) 30 March – Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (born 1765) April–June 9 April – Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, German prince of the House of Ascania (born 1735) 6 May – Adolph Freiherr Knigge, German writer, Freemason (born 1752) 12 May – Johann Uz, German poet (born 1720) 17 May – Gotthard Friedrich Stender, Baltic-German Lutheran priest who played an outstanding role in Latvia's history of culture (born 1714) 16 June Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, German prince from the House of Wettin and Duke of Courland (born 1733) 25 June – Johann Philipp Siebenkees, German philosopher (1759–1796) July–September 11 September – Anna Barbara Gignoux, German industrialist (born 1725) October–December 16 December – Johann Daniel Titius, German astronomer, professor at Wittenberg (born 1729) References External links 1796 Category:Years of the 18th century in Germany Germany