1801 in Germany
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Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire
- Francis II (5 July 1792 â 6 August 1806)
Important Electors
- Bavaria Maximilian I (16 February 1799 â 6 August 1806)[1]
- Saxony Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 â 20 December 1806)[2]
Kingdoms
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch â Frederick William III (16 November 1797 â 7 June 1840)[3]
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I (24 April 1785 â 1 February 1837)[4]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 â 6 November 1816)[5]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- Karl August (1758â1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 â 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 â 28 April 1807)[7]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 â 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800 â 29 January 1817)
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 â 24 September 1812)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 â 9 August 1817)[8]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780â1826) - Frederick[4]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- Francis (8 September 1800 â 9 December 1806)
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 â 25 March 1816)[10]
- Duke of Württemberg
- Frederick I (22 December 1797 â 30 October 1816)[11]
Other
Events
- 9 February â 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
- 22 January â Friedrich Gerke, German pioneer of telegraphy (died 1888)
- 19 April â Gustav Fechner, German psychologist (died 1887)[12]
- 16 June â Julius Plücker, German mathematician, physicist (died 1868)
- 14 July â Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (died 1858)
- 10 August â Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant religious philosopher (died 1866)[13]
- 3 September â Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, German palaeontologist (died 1869)
- 12 October â Carl August von Steinheil, German engineer, astronomer (died 1870)
- 23 October â Albert Lortzing, German composer (died 1851)
- 3 November â Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859)[14]
- 13 November â Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia (died 1873)
- 24 November â Ludwig Bechstein, German writer and collector of folk tales (died 1860)[15]
- 4 December â Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher (died 1893)[16]
- 11 December â Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (died 1836)
Date unknown
- Thierry Hermès, German-born French businessman, founder of Hermès (died 1878)
Deaths
- 14 March â Christian Friedrich Penzel, German musician and composer (born 1737)
- 25 March â Novalis, German poet (born 1772)[17]
- 26 April â Karl Heinrich Heydenreich, German philosopher (born 1764)[18]
- 14 May â Johann Ernst Altenburg, German composer, organist and trumpeter (born 1734)[19]
- 19 September â Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (born 1745)
- 23 October â Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Kapellmeister, conductor and composer (born 1741)[20]
