Events from the year 1801 in Germany.
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Incumbents edit
Holy Roman Empire edit
- Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)
Important Electors edit
- Bavaria Maximilian I (16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806)[1]
- Saxony Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)[2]
Kingdoms edit
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[3]
Grand Duchies edit
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[4]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)[5]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities edit
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 – 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807)[7]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 August 1835)
- 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 edit
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)[8]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[4]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- Francis (8 September 1800 – 9 December 1806)
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)[10]
- Duke of Württemberg
- Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)[11]
Other edit
Events edit
- 9 February – The Treaty of Lunéville ends the War of the Second Coalition between France and Austria. Under the terms of the treaty, Aachen is officially annexed by France.
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- Ultraviolet radiation is discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter.
- The magnum opus Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Carl Friedrich Gauss is published.
Births edit
- 22 January – Friedrich Gerke, German pioneer of telegraphy (died 1888)
- 19 April – Gustav Fechner, German psychologist (died 1887)[12]
- 16 June – Julius Plücker, German mathematician, physicist (died 1868)
- 14 July – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (died 1858)
- 10 August – Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant religious philosopher (died 1866)[13]
- 3 September – Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, German palaeontologist (died 1869)
- 12 October – Carl August von Steinheil, German engineer, astronomer (died 1870)
- 23 October – Albert Lortzing, German composer (died 1851)
- 3 November – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859)[14]
- 13 November – Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia (died 1873)
- 24 November – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer and collector of folk tales (died 1860)[15]
- 4 December – Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher (died 1893)[16]
- 11 December – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (died 1836)
Date unknown edit
- Thierry Hermès, German-born French businessman, founder of Hermès (died 1878)
Deaths edit
- 14 March – Christian Friedrich Penzel, German musician and composer (born 1737)
- 25 March – Novalis, German poet (born 1772)[17]
- 26 April – Karl Heinrich Heydenreich, German philosopher (born 1764)[18]
- 14 May – Johann Ernst Altenburg, German composer, organist and trumpeter (born 1734)[19]
- 19 September – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (born 1745)
- 23 October – Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Kapellmeister, conductor and composer (born 1741)[20]
References edit
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 921.
- ^ "General German Biography - Wikisource". Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ Frederick William III at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ a b c 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] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 38.
- ^ Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
- ^ a b "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Apfelstedt, F.; Apfelstedt, Heinrich Friedrich Theodor (1996). Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit. Thüringer Chronik-Verlag Müllerott. ISBN 978-3-910132-29-0.
- ^ J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
- ^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
- ^ David, Saul (1998). Prince of pleasure : the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-87113-739-5. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ "Gustav Fechner - German psychologist and physicist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ Werner Georg Kümmel (1972). The New Testament: The History of the Investigation of Its Problems. Abingdon Press. p. 494. ISBN 9780687279265.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 191.
- ^ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Michelet, Karl Ludwig". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 370.
- ^ Tieck, Ludwig (2007) [1815]. "Ludwig Tieck "Biography of Novalis, 1815". In Donehower, Bruce (ed.). The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. pp. 126–136. ISBN 9780791480687.
- ^ Klemme, Heiner F. (2006), "Heydenreich, Karl Heinrich", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1180–81
- ^ "Altenburg Johann Ernst". Editions Bim. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
- ^ Dieter Härtwig and Laurie Ongley: "Johann Gottlieb Naumann," Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 12 December 2006) (subscription access). Archived 16 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
