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1816 in Germany
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1816
Events from the year 1816 in Germany.
Incumbents
Kingdoms
Kingdom of Prussia
Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)Tikkanen Amy 30 July 2018 Federick William III https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III 2022-09-21 Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820)
Kingdom of Württemberg
Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)
William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies
Grand Duke of Baden
Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818von Weech Friedrich Karl Ludwig Friedrich http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/artikelADB_pnd102285020.html Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 25 July 2010 Onlinefassung GermanJune 2026 InternetArchiveBot
Grand Duke of Hesse
Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)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
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816) Huish Robert Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third T. Kelly 1821 170
George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860) Bogue David The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables https://archive.org/details/mentimeinorsket01bogugoog G. Barclay 1852 287
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.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 1823 - 21 May 1829)
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)Monarchies of Europe http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm#24.7336 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070614023242/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm 14 June 2007
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
Principality of Lippe
Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)1850 Justus Perthes 87th Almanach de Gotha 38
Principality of Reuss-Greiz
Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800 – 29 January 1817)
Waldeck and Pyrmont
George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies
Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
Duke of Brunswick
Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)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.
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)Ernest I. 9 751
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)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 1775 – 25 March 1816)Albinus Robert Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung 1985 Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg Leer 371 3-7921-0320-6 de
Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)1829 1st pub.:1801 Bille-Hansen A. C. Holck Harald Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Stats-Calender for Aaret 1829 Court and State Calendar of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1829 https://dis-danmark.dk/bibliotek/918037.pdf#page=29 PDF Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender da Copenhagen J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri 5, 8, 51 16 September 2019 :da:DIS Danmark
Events
January 9 – Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl, after a legal battle with the boy's mother.
10 February – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder of the House of Glücksburg.
April 17 – Josef von Spaun writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for permission to have his poems set to music by the youthful Franz Schubert.
July 13 – Carl Maria von Weber meets Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt at Carlsbad; the encounter leads to Weber being appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden.
October 2 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg.
November 19 – Carl Maria von Weber becomes engaged to soprano Caroline Brandt.
Ludwig van Beethoven : To the distant beloved op. 98 (song cycle); Der Mann von Wort - Lied Op. 99; Piano Sonata No. 28 op.101 (completed in 1816, premiered in 1817)
Johann Simon Mayr : 6 cantatas ( Egeria, Annibale, Lo spavento, La tempesta, Le Festivals d'Ercole, L'armonia )
Carl Maria von Weber : Piano Sonata No. 2 in A flat major op. 39; Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 49; Grand Duo concertant for clarinet and piano in E flat major op.48 (chamber music)
Franz Bopp – Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache (On the Conjugation System of Sanskrit in comparison with that of Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic)
Pinkus Müller brewery established.
Province of Saxony established
Province of Brandenburg established
The Neue Wache, a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin. Erected from 1816 to 1818.
Births
24 May – Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter (d. 1868)
thumb|110px|Paul Reuter
thumb|110px|Werner von Siemens
21 July – Paul Reuter, German entrepreneur (d. 1899)
11 September – Carl Zeiss, German maker of optical instruments (d. 1888)
November 1 – Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, German novelist, dramatist and travel writer (died 1877)
10 December – August Karl von Goeben, Prussian general (d. 1880)
13 December – Werner von Siemens, German inventor, industrialist (d. 1892)
29 December – Carl Ludwig, German physician, physiologist (d. 1895)
Deaths
3 March – Johann August von Starck, German pastor (b. 1741)
April 28 – Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (born 1762)Anemüller, Bernhard (1875). "Abicht, Johann Heinrich". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Band 1. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. S. 21 (German).
9 August – Johann August Apel, German writer, jurist (b. 1771)
29 August – Johann Hieronymus Schröter, German astronomer (b. 1745)
6 November – Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1741)
Christian Gottlob Fechhelm, German portrait and historical painter (born 1732)
References
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