Events from the year 1819 in Germany.
Incumbents
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) Kingdom of Bavaria Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825) Kingdom of Saxony Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827) Kingdom of Hanover George III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820) Kingdom of Württemberg William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Baden Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830) Grand Duke of Hesse Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860) 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. Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829) 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) Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835) Principality of Lippe Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851) Principality of Reuss-Greiz Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836) Waldeck and Pyrmont George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871) Duke of Brunswick Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826) Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866) Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)
Events 23 March – In Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German dramatist August von Kotzebue is assassinated by Karl Ludwig Sand. 1 July – German astronomer Johann Georg Tralles discovers what will be called the Great Comet of 1819 20 September – 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) Joseph von Eichendorff – Das Marmorbild Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation Jacob Grimm – 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 – Karl Heine, German lawyer and entrepreneur (died 1888) 8 February – Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, German writer and politician (died 1904) 10 February – Albert Schwegler, German philosopher and Protestant theologian. (died 1857) 11 February – 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 – Ludwig Simon, German lawyer and politician (died 1872) 22 February – Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher (died 1888) 25 February – Peter Friedhofen, German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians (died 1860) 1 March – Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, German surgeon (died 1895) 24 March – Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist (died 1889) 26 March – Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist (died 1895) 31 March – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (died 1901) 11 April – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (died 1895) 24 April – Klaus Groth, German poet (died 1899) 2 May – Gustav Becker, German clockmaker (died 1885) 7 May – Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German-Baltic astronomer (died 1905) 27 May – George V of Hanover, German monarch of kingdom Hannover (died 1878) 17 June – Albert Dulk, German writer (died 1884) 20 June – Jacques Offenbach, German composer (died 1880) 22 June – August Wöhler, German railway engineer (died 1914) 3 July – Théodore Gouvy, German composer (died 1898) 6 July – Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist (died 1892) 16 July – Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold, German mathematician (died 1884) 20 July – Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, German publicist and philosopher (died 1880) 12 August – Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (died 1874) 22 August – Johann Nepomuk Brischar, German Roman Catholic church historian (died 1897) 26 August – Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (died 1861) 13 September – Clara Schumann, German composer and pianist (died 1896) 22 September – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (died 1897) 16 October – Arnold Schaefer, German historian (died 1883) 17 October – Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German sovereign (died 1904) 25 October – Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist (died 1904) 12 November – Daniel Sanders, German lexicographer (died 1897) 16 November – Wilhelm Marr, German journalist (died 1904) 1 December – Philipp Krementz, German catholic bishop (died 1899) 22 December – Franz Abt, German composer and choral conductor (died 1885) 23 December – Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, German gynecologist and obstetrician (died 1892) 26 December – Hermann Blumenau, German pharmacist (died 1899) 30 December – Theodor Fontane, German writer (died 1898)
Deaths 12 January – Benedikte Naubert, German writer (born 1752) 28 January – Johann Karl Wezel, German poet (born 1747) 10 March – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (born 1743) 23 March – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (born 1761) 30 June – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, German composer (born 1746) 20 July – Xaver Hohenleiter, German criminal (born 1788) 29 July – Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel, German writer (born 1779) 12 September – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (born 1742) 20 October – Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, German philosopher (born 1780) 5 December – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (born 1750)
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