1801 in Germany

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Events from the year 1801 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

• Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)

Important Electors

• Bavaria Maximilian I (16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806)[1]
• Saxony Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)[2]

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[3]

Grand Duchies

• 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
  • 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.[6]
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 – 21 May 1829)[6]
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
  • Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Principalities

• 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

• 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
  • Georg I (1782–1803)[9]
• 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

• Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Louis I (6 April 1790 – 14 August 1806)[4]

Events

• 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.

Date unknown

• Ultraviolet radiation is discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter.
• The magnum opus Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Carl Friedrich Gauss is published.

Births

Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria

Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer

• 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

• Thierry Hermès, German-born French businessman, founder of Hermès (died 1878)

Deaths

• 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

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3. Frederick William III at the Encyclopædia Britannica
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8. J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
9. "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
10. Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
11. 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.
12. "Gustav Fechner - German psychologist and physicist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
13. Werner Georg Kümmel (1972). The New Testament: The History of the Investigation of Its Problems. Abingdon Press. p. 494. ISBN 9780687279265.
14. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baedeker, Karl" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 191.
15. Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Bechstein, Ludwig" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
16.  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.
17. 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.
18. 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
19. "Altenburg Johann Ernst". Editions Bim. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
20. 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