1796 in Germany

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Events from the year 1796 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)

Important Electors

Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)^[1]

Kingdoms

Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William II of Prussia (17 August 1786 – 16 November 1797)^[2]

Grand Duchies

Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)^[3]
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)^[4]
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.^[5]
- Peter I (2 July 1823 – 21 May 1829)^[5]
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)^[6]
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 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 1763 – 24 September 1812)

Duchies

Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)^[7]
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) – Frederick^[3]
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)^[8]
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)^[9]
Duke of Württemberg
- Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (20 May 1795 – 23 December 1797)^[10]

Other

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Louis I (6 April 1790 – 14 August 1806)^[3]

Events

29 March: Carl Friedrich Gauß determines a construction method for the heptadecagon.

Heptadecagon

7 August: Württemberg cedes its property on the left bank of the Rhine, Mömpelgard, to France in the Peace of Paris in exchange for the promise of later compensation.

25 August: In a separate peace between Sigismund von Reitzenstein on behalf of the Margraviate of Baden and France, Baden has to cede its possessions on the left bank of the Rhine to France and make high reparation payments. In addition, the escaped Margrave Karl Friedrich is supposed to renounce his status as imperial prince.

2 September: Under pressure from its citizens, after experiencing French occupation in the War of the First Coalition, the imperial city of Nuremberg concludes a treaty that will place the city under Prussian sovereignty. Confirmation by the Prussian government did not materialize later due to foreign policy considerations and the necessary assumption of the Nuremberg debt burden.

3 September: In the First Coalition War, Archduke Charles of Austria and his army defeat France's troops under the command of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan in the Battle of Würzburg . The second defeat after the previous Battle of Amberg on 24 August caused Jourdan to resign his command.

Ludwig van Beethoven dedicates his three piano sonatas Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 2 and Piano Sonata No. 3 to his teacher Joseph Haydn .

Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths publishes the work Gymnastik für die Jugend ( Gymnastics for Youth: Or a practical guide to Delightful and Amusing exercises for the Use of Schools, An Essay Toward the Necessary Improvement of Education Chiefly as It Relates to Body), in which, among other things, rules for the game of baseball can be found for the first time.^[11]

Births

January

1 January

Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier, German philologist (died 1855)

7 January

Peter Nead, German Baptist Brethren theologian (died 1877)

8 January

Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann, German metallurgist (died 1863)

21 January

Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, German princess and painter (died 1880)

23 January

Karl Ernst Claus, Baltic-German chemist, naturalist (died 1864)

29 January

Peter Joseph Elvenich, German theologian and philosopher (died 1886)

31 January

Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann, German astronomer (died 1840)

February

21 February

Prince George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince (died 1865)

28 February

Heinrich Carl Breidenstein, German musicologist (died 1876)

29 February – Germanicus Mirault, surgeon (died 1879)

March

8 March

Nicolaus von Weis, German bishop (died 1869)
Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx, German physician (died 1877)

11 March – Johann Ludwig Casper, German forensic pathologist (died 1864) 13 March

Peter van Bohlen, German orientalist and indologist (died 1840)

22 March – Heinrich Karl Beyrich, German botanist (died 1834) 23 March

Julius Friedrich Heinrich Abegg, German criminologist (died 1868)

31 March

Theodor Brüggemann, German politician, jurist and educationist (died 1866)
Hermann Hupfeld, German theologian (died 1866)

April

13 April

Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann, German academic (died 1864)

19 April

Johann Baptist Friedreich, German forensic pathologist and psychiatrist (died 1862)

24 April

Karl Immermann, German writer (died 1840)

27 April

Johann F. C. Hessel, German scientist (died 1872)
Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony, German princess (died 1865)

May

6 May

Karl Heinrich Frotscher, German classical philologist (died 1876)
Johann Adam Möhler, German theologian (died 1838)

7 May

Karl Heinrich Mertens, German botanist and naturalist (died 1830)

9 May

Joseph Meyer, German publisher (died 1856)
August Pauly, German classical scholar (died 1845)

12 May

Franz Mone, German historian (died 1871)

15 May

Johann Heinrich Richartz, German merchant (died 1861)

23 May

Vince Stingl, Hungarian-German porcelain manufacturer (died 1850)

18 June

Friedrich Diercks, first German emigrant in Texas (died 1848)
Wilhelm Hemprich, German naturalist and explorer (died 1825)
Ernst Mayer, German sculptor (died 1844)

28 June

Paul Camille von Denis, German businessman (died 1872)

2 July

Michael Thonet, German-Austrian cabinet maker (died 1871)

3 July – Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, German philosopher (died 1862)

12 July

Johann Joseph Schmeller, German painter (died 1841)

13 July

Gustav Seyffarth, German-American Egyptologist (died 1885)

15 July

Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann, German author (died 1847)
Karl Follen, German poet, writer and revolutionary (died 1840)

22 July

Peter Joseph Lenné, German landscape architect (died 1866)

27 July

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879)
Friedrich Julius Richelot, German mathematician (died 1875)

29 July

Peter von Hess, German painter (died 1871)

31 July

Karl Friedrich Neumann, German orientalist (died 1858)

3 August – Carl Friedrich Naumann, German geologist (died 1873)

6 August

Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German-Swiss chemist (died 1868)

10 August

Johann Friedrich Naue, German musician (died 1858)
Ferdinand Kürnberger, German writer (died 1879)

12 August – Maximilian II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria (died 1864)

13 August

Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen, German historian (died 1863)

15 August

Jacob Acontius, German philosopher and theologian (died 1865)

16 August

Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine, German prince (died 1877)

22 August

Wilhelm von Humboldt, German statesman, philosopher, linguist, and educational reformer (died 1835)

26 August

Karl Ludwig Hencke, German astronomer (died 1866)

8 September

Wilhelm Pape, German lexicographer (died 1864)
Karl von Vogelsang, Austrian-German journalist and politician (died 1890)

10 September – Hermann Kopp, German chemist (died 1872)

13 September – Johann Georg Wagler, German naturalist (died 1832)

14 September – Theodor Kliefoth, German Lutheran theologian (died 1895)

15 September

Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor and scientist (died 1874)

19 September – Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Baltic German field marshal (died 1874)

22 September

Wilhelm Henzen, German archaeologist (died 1887)
Friedrich Wilhelm Otto, German philologist (died 1865)

29 September

Karl Wilhelm Walch, German theologian (died 1873)
Johann Christian Reinhart, German painter (died 1847)

1 October

Karl Friedrich Wunder, German photographer (died 1871)

5 October

Johann Georg Eccarius, German tailor and trade unionist (died 1889)
Johann Adam Hesse, German painter (died 1874)

7 October – Karl Krazeisen, German painter (died 1885)

9 October – Emil Otto Grundmann, German-American painter (died 1890)

13 October

Karl Gutzkow, German writer (died 1878)

14 October – Theodor Kotschy, Austrian-German botanist and explorer (died 1866)

17 October – Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter (died 1874)

18 October

Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, German physicist (died 1914)

20 October – Moritz von Schwind, German painter (died 1871)

October

4 October

August Wilhelm Bach, German composer (died 1869)

10 October

Franz Gerhard Eschweiler, German botanist (died 1831)

11 October

August Ahlborn, German painter (died 1857)

16 October

Karl Spindler, German writer (died 1855)

19 October

Carl Wagner, German painter known for romantic landscape painting (died 1867)

24 October

August von Platen-Hallermünde, German poet (died 1835)

26 October

Gottfried Osann, German chemist and physicist (died 1866)

28 October

Charles Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg, German politician (died 1854)

31 October

Ottilie von Goethe, German writer, editor (died 1872)

November

3 November

Friedrich Lennig, German writer (died 1838)

13 November

Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach, German jurist (died 1857)

14 November

Friederike Funk, German soprano (died 1830)

19 November

Christian Lorenz Sommer, German classical philologist (died 1846)

25 November

Andreas von Ettingshausen, German mathematician, physicist (died 1878)

30 November

Carl Loewe, German composer (died 1869)

December

20 December – Simon Meister, German painter (died 1844) 29 December

Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (died 1877)
Ferdinand von Wrangel, Baltic German explorer and Russian admiral (died 1870)

Deaths

January–March

28 February – Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, German violinist (born 1739)
30 March – Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (born 1765)

April–June

9 April – Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, German prince of the House of Ascania (born 1735)
6 May – Adolph Freiherr Knigge, German writer, Freemason (born 1752)
12 May – Johann Uz, German poet (born 1720)
17 May – Gotthard Friedrich Stender, Baltic-German Lutheran priest who played an outstanding role in Latvia's history of culture (born 1714)
16 June
- Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, German prince from the House of Wettin and Duke of Courland (born 1733)
25 June – Johann Philipp Siebenkees, German philosopher (1759–1796)

July–September

11 September – Anna Barbara Gignoux, German industrialist (born 1725)

October–December

16 December – Johann Daniel Titius, German astronomer, professor at Wittenberg (born 1729)

References

^ "General German Biography – Wikisource". Retrieved 24 January 2021.
^ Encyclopaedia Britannica (30 July 2018). "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia 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.
^ Todd, Jan (1998). "Souls of fire in iron hearts". Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800–1870. Mercer University Press. p. 60. ISBN 0865545618.

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[1] "General German Biography – Wikisource". Retrieved 24 January 2021.

[2] Encyclopaedia Britannica (30 July 2018). "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica.

[genea-3] 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.

[4] Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.

[Olden-5] "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

[6] 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.

[7] J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.

[Bio-8] "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

[Albinus-9] Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.

[10] 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.

[Jan_Todd-11] Todd, Jan (1998). "Souls of fire in iron hearts". Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800–1870. Mercer University Press. p. 60. ISBN 0865545618.

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