1819 in Germany
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Incumbents
Kingdoms
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch â Frederick William III (16 November 1797 â 7 June 1840)[1]
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Maximilian I (1 January 1806 â 13 October 1825)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 â 5 May 1827)
- Kingdom of Hanover
- George III (25 October 1760 â29 January 1820)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 â 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis Iâ (24 April 1785 â 1 February 1837)[2]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)[5]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[6]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[7]
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[8]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 â 9 September 1830)[9]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780â1826) - Frederick[2]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803â20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 â 6 July 1825)[12]
Events
- 23 March â In Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German dramatist August von Kotzebue is assassinated by Karl Ludwig Sand.[13]
- 1 July â German astronomer Johann Georg Tralles discovers what will be called the Great Comet of 1819
- 20 September â Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederation
Publications
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
- Das Fräulein von Scuderi: Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten (novella published in Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1820)
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Joseph von Eichendorff â Das Marmorbild
- Arthur Schopenhauer â The World as Will and Representation
- Jacob Grimm â Deutsche Grammatik
Births
- 8 January - Mary Frances Schervier, Germane founder of two religious congregations of Religious Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, (died 1876)
- 10 January â Karl Heine, German lawyer and entrepreneur (died 1888)
- 8 February â Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, German writer and politician (died 1904)
- 10 February â Albert Schwegler, German philosopher and Protestant theologian. (died 1857)
- 11 February â Ottilie Assing, German feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist. (died 1884)
- 17 February
- Philipp Jaffé, German historian and philologist (died 1870)
- Max Schneckenburger, German writer (died 1849)
- 20 February â Ludwig Simon, German lawyer and politician (died 1872)
- 22 February â Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher (died 1888)
- 25 February â Peter Friedhofen, German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians (died 1860)
- 1 March â Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, German surgeon (died 1895)
- 24 March â Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist (died 1889)
- 26 March â Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist (died 1895)
- 31 March â Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (died 1901)
- 11 April â Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (died 1895)
- 24 April â Klaus Groth, German poet (died 1899)
- 2 May â Gustav Becker, German clockmaker (died 1885)
- 7 May â Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German-Baltic astronomer (died 1905)
- 27 May â George V of Hanover, German monarch of kingdom Hannover (died 1878)
- 17 June â Albert Dulk, German writer (died 1884)
- 20 June â Jacques Offenbach, German composer (died 1880)
- 22 June â August Wöhler, German railway engineer (died 1914)
- 3 July â Théodore Gouvy, German composer (died 1898)
- 6 July â Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist (died 1892)
- 16 July â Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold, German mathematician (died 1884)
- 20 July â Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, German publicist and philosopher (died 1880)
- 12 August â Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (died 1874)
- 22 August â Johann Nepomuk Brischar, German Roman Catholic church historian (died 1897)
- 26 August â Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (died 1861)
- 13 September â Clara Schumann, German composer and pianist (died 1896)
- 22 September â Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (died 1897)
- 16 October â Arnold Schaefer, German historian (died 1883)
- 17 October â Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German sovereign (died 1904)
- 25 October â Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist (died 1904)
- 12 November â Daniel Sanders, German lexicographer (died 1897)
- 16 November â Wilhelm Marr, German journalist (died 1904)
- 1 December â Philipp Krementz, German catholic bishop (died 1899)
- 22 December â Franz Abt, German composer and choral conductor (died 1885)
- 23 December â Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, German gynecologist and obstetrician (died 1892)
- 26 December â Hermann Blumenau, German pharmacist (died 1899)
- 30 December â Theodor Fontane, German writer (died 1898)[14]
Deaths
- 12 January â Benedikte Naubert, German writer (born 1752)
- 28 January â Johann Karl Wezel, German poet (born 1747)
- 10 March â Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (born 1743)[15]
- 23 March â August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (born 1761)[13]
- 30 June â Ernst Ludwig Gerber, German composer (born 1746)
- 20 July â Xaver Hohenleiter, German criminal (born 1788)
- 29 July â Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel, German writer (born 1779)
- 12 September â Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (born 1742)
- 20 October â Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, German philosopher (born 1780)
- 5 December â Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (born 1750)