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1808 in Germany
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1808
Events from the year 1808 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 Württemberg
Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)
Grand Duchies
Grand Duke of Baden
Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811)
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
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
Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to a grand duchy in 1809
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
Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)
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
Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)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 Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg 1985 3-7921-0320-6 Leer 371 de
Events
April- Prussian philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte publishes his Addresses to the German Nation, having delivered them over the winter at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin before crowded audiences.
27 September – The Congress of Erfurt, between the emperors Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia, begins.
22 December – Beethoven concert of 22 December 1808: Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and plays piano in a marathon benefit concert, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, consisting entirely of first public performances of works by him, including Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6, Piano Concerto No. 4 and Choral Fantasy.Cooper Barry Barry Cooper (musicologist) Beethoven 2008 Oxford Oxford University Press 193 978-0-19531-331-4
German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss publishes Theorematis arithmetici demonstratio nova, introducing Gauss's lemma in the third proof of quadratic reciprocity.
Date unknown
Goethe's Faust, Part One (Faust. Eine Tragödie, erster Teil) is published in full in Tübingen.
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich is given the title of Royal Academy of Fine Arts by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.
Births
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27 January – David Strauss, German theologian (died 1874)
5 February – Carl Spitzweg, German painter (died 1885)
20 June – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (died 1888)
25 July – Johann Benedict Listing, German mathematician (died 1882).
20 October – Karl Andree, German geographer (died 1875)
6 November – Friedrich Julius Richelot, German mathematician (died 1875)
Date unknown – Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in the Biedermeier artistic tradition and the Nazarene movement of 19th-century German painters (died 1873)
Deaths
1 October – Carl Gotthard Langhans, German architect (born 1732)
4 December – Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic (born 1763)
References
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