1797 in Germany

none April 2022 1797 Events from the year 1797 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) 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 II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (20 May 1795 – 23 December 1797) 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 26 January – The Treaty of the Third Partition of Poland is signed in St. Petersburg by the Russian Empire, Austria and the Kingdom of Prussia. 12 February – "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" is first performed, with the music composed in January by Joseph Haydn, which also becomes the tune to the Deutschlandlied, the German national anthem (Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, later Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit). 16 November – The Prussian heir apparent, Frederick William, becomes King of Prussia as Fredrick William III.Frederick William II. of Prussia 11 64–65 1 Births thumb|110px|Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 4 January – Wilhelm Beer, German banker, astronomer (d. 1850) 5 January – Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein, Prussian general (d. 1885) 10 January – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848) 11 January – Carl Rottmann, German landscape painter, the most famous member of the Rottmann family of painters (d. 1850) 26 January – Therese Albertine Luise Robinson, German-American author (d. 1870) 29 January – Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian nobleman (d. 1873) 2 February – Bertha Zück, German-born treasurer of Queen Josephine of Sweden (d. 1868) 6 February – Joseph von Radowitz, conservative Prussian statesman, general (d. 1853) 15 February – Henry Engelhard Steinway, German-American piano manufacturer (d. 1871) 23 February – Heinrich Halfeld, German engineer (d. 1873) 3 March – Gotthilf Hagen, German civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics (d. 1884) 5 March – Friedrich von Gerolt, Prussian Privy Councillor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States (d. 1879) 21 March – Johann Andreas Wagner, German palaeontologist (d. 1861) 22 March Eduard Gans, German jurist (d. 1839) Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888) 27 March – Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf (d. 1853) 5 April – Karl August Devrient, German stage actor best known for performances of Schiller and Shakespeare (d. 1872) 12 April – Ernst August Hagen, Prussian art writer, novelist (d. 1880) 23 April – Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, German Romantic painter, illustrator (d. 1855) 26 April – Albert Seerig, German surgeon, anatomist (d. 1862) 3 May – Heinrich Berghaus, German geographer (d. 1884) 11 May – Ernst Meyer, German-born Danish genre painter of Jewish ancestry (d. 1861) 12 May – Johann Hermann Kufferath, German composer (d. 1864) 18 May – Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854) 30 May Johann Christian Lobe, German composer, music theorist (d. 1881) Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist (d. 1873) 20 June – Karolina Gerhardinger, German Roman Catholic professed religious, established the School Sisters of Notre Dame (d. 1879) 12 July – Adele Schopenhauer, German author (d. 1849)http://www.scherenschnitt.org/schopenhauer/ Adele Schopenhauer Weber Christa November 21, 2009 Deutscher Scherenschnittverein e.V. [German papercut art] June 7, 2014 21 June 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240621005315/http://www.scherenschnitt.org/schopenhauer/ dead 20 July – Gotthard Fritzsche, Prussian-Australian pastor (d. 1863) 25 July – Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889) 5 August – Friedrich August Kummer, German violoncellist, pedagogue and composer (d. 1879) 6 August – August Wilhelm Stiehler, German government official, paleobotanist (d. 1878) 7 August – Justin von Linde, German jurist, statesman from the Grand Duchy of Hesse (d. 1870) 9 August – Christian Wilhelm Niedner, German church historian, theologian (d. 1865) 10 August – Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, German botanist (d. 1848) 28 August – Karl Otfried Müller, German scholar, Philodorian (d. 1840) 10 September – Franz Krüger, German (Prussian) painter, lithographer (d. 1857) 16 September – Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert, German businessman (d. 1877) 17 September – Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist, zoologist (d. 1821) 24 September – Carl Peter Wilhelm Gramberg, German theologian, biblical scholar (d. 1830) thumb|right|110px|Heinrich Heine 3 October – Ludwig Förster, German-born Austrian architect (d. 1863) 10 October – - August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff, Prussian diplomat (d. 1874) 15 October Johann Gottlieb Fleischer, German botanist and ornithologist (d. 1838) Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse, German philologist (d. 1855) 26 October – Johann Adam Philipp Hepp, German physician, lichenologist (d. 1867) 30 October – Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1829) 14 November Moses M. Haarbleicher, German-Jewish poet, critic (d. 1869) Justus Radius, German pathologist, ophthalmologist (d. 1884) 13 December – Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)8 286 291 Heine, Heinrich Galley, Eberhard 118548018 14 December – Emil Huschke, German anatomist and embryologist (d. 1858) 15 December – Karl Friedrich Theodor Krause, German anatomist (d. 1868) 18 December – August Friedrich Wilhelm Forchhammer, jurist and historian from the Duchy of Schleswig (d. 1870) 26 December – Johann Gustav Heckscher, German politician (d. 1865) Deaths 13 January – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, queen consort of Prussia (b. 1715) 22 February – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720) 7 March – Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey, German writer (b. 1711) 12 April – Johann Georg Bach, German organist (b. 1751)Johann Sebastian Bach The origin of the family of Bach musicians: Ursprung der musicalisch-Bachischen familie Oxford University Press, H. Milford 1929 12 August – Gotthelf Greiner, glassmaker (born 1732)7 38 39 Greiner, Gotthelf Herbert Kühnert 4 October – Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz, German Protestant theologian (born 1717) 6 October – Johann Matthäus Hassencamp, German Orientalist and theologian (born 1743) 16 November – King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) 27 November – Johann Baptist Wendling, Alsatian-born flute player, composer of the Mannheim School (b. 1723) 23 December – Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1732) References 1797 Category:Years of the 18th century in Germany Germany