1797 in Germany explained
Events from the year 1797 in Germany.
Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire
Important Electors
Kingdoms
Frederick William II of Prussia (17 August 1786 – 16 November 1797)
Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 17977 June 1840)[2]
Grand Duchies
Principalities
Duchies
Other
Events
Births
- 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
- 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
- 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)[11]
- 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)
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)[12]
- 12 August – Gotthelf Greiner, glassmaker (born 1732)
- 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)
Notes and References
- Web site: General German Biography - Wikisource. 24 January 2021.
- Web site: Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018. Frederick William III. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- Book: Huish, Robert . Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third . T. Kelly . 1821 . 170 .
- Web site: Oldenburg Royal Family . 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 .
- Book: 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.
- J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
- Web site: 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.
- Book: Albinus, Robert. Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung. Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. 1985. 3-7921-0320-6. Leer. 371. de.
- Book: David, Saul. 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.
- Book: 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 . 1768. Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. Bourdeaux. fr. 38.
- Web site: Adele Schopenhauer . Weber . Christa . November 21, 2009 . Deutscher Scherenschnittverein e.V. [German papercut art] . June 7, 2014 .
- Book: Johann Sebastian Bach. The origin of the family of Bach musicians: Ursprung der musicalisch-Bachischen familie. Oxford University Press, H. Milford. 1929.