1821 in Germany
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Events from the year 1821 in Germany
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 IV (29 January 1820 â 26 June 1830)
- 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 1803 â 20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 â 6 July 1825)[12]
Events
- Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria, wishing to build a monument to German unity and heroism (and the defeat of Napoleon), commissions Leo von Klenze to build a replica of the Parthenon on a bluff overlooking the Danube River near Regensburg, the Walhalla memorial.
- The only two issues of Der Bibel'sche Orient appear in Munich (April 24 and August 12).[13]
- Ludwig van Beethoven â Piano Sonata No. 31
- Franz Schubert
- "Gesang der Geister über den Wassern", D.714; part song for male voices and low strings; Op.posth. 167 (1858)
- Symphony No. 7 in E major, D 729
- Carl Maria von Weber â Konzertstück in F minor, for piano and orchestra, Op. 79
Births
- 27 January â August Becker, German landscape painter (died 1887)
- 19 February â August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868)
- 1 March â Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
- 17 May â Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopath (d. 1897)
- 18 May â Eduard von Pestel, Prussian military officer and German general (d. 1908)
- 17 July â Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (d. 1902)
- 31 August â Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894)
- 13 October â Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
Deaths
- 20 Aprilâ Franz Karl Achard, German chemist, physicist and biologist (b. 1753)
- 22 May â Johann Georg Heinrich Feder, German philosopher (born 1740)
- 10 September â Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter, art historian (b. 1748)
- 14 September â Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist, zoologist (b. 1797)
- 21 October â Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)
