1799 in Germany explained

Events from the year 1799 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

• Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)

Important Electors

• Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
• Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 176320 December 1806)^[1]

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 17977 June 1840)^[2]

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 17851 February 1837)
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Charles II (2 June 17946 November 1816)^[3]
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg
  • Wilhelm (6 July 17852 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.^[4]
  • Peter I (2 July 182321 May 1829)
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
  • Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
  • George William (13 February 17871860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Louis Frederick II (13 April 179328 April 1807)^[5]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 179419 August 1835)
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
  • Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (12 May 1778-28 June 1800)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • Friedrich Karl August (29 August 176324 September 1812)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Leopold III (16 December 17519 August 1817)^[6]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
  • Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800)
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Georg I (1782–1803)^[7]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816)^[8]
• Duke of Württemberg
  • Frederick I (22 December 179730 October 1816)^[9]

Other

• Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Louis I (6 April 179014 August 1806)^[10]

Events

• December 3 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
• Frankenthal Porcelain Factory closed by the French forces.

Births

• January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (died 1872)
• May 26 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (died 1853)
• March 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, German astronomer (d. 1875)
• March 28 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician, noted for reporting the symptoms of Graves–Basedow disease (d. 1854)
• October 18 – Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist (d. 1868)
• Eduard Clemens Fechner, German portrait painter and etcher (died 1861)

Deaths

• February 1 – Ferdinand Kobell, German painter and engraver (born 1740)
• February 16 – Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1724)
• February 18 – Johann Hedwig, German bryologist (born 1730)
• February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile (b. 1742)
• March 18 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor (born 1717)
• March 29 – Helena Dorothea von Schönberg, German industrialist (d. 1729)

Notes and References

1. Web site: General German Biography - Wikisource. 24 January 2021.
2. Web site: Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018. Frederick William III. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
3. Book: Huish, Robert . Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third . T. Kelly . 1821 . 170 .
4. 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 .
5. 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.
6. J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
7. 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.
8. Book: Albinus, Robert. Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung. Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. 1985. 3-7921-0320-6. Leer. 371. de.
9. 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.
10. 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.