Events from the year 1801 in Germany.
Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)
Important Electors Bavaria Maximilian I (16 February 17996 August 1806) Saxony Frederick Augustus I (17 December 176320 December 1806)
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 17977 June 1840)
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis I (24 April 17851 February 1837) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Charles II (2 June 17946 November 1816) Grand Duke of Oldenburg Wilhelm (6 July 17852 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 182321 May 1829) Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities Schaumburg-Lippe George William (13 February 17871860) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Louis Frederick II (13 April 179328 April 1807) Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 179419 August 1835) Principality of Reuss-Greiz Heinrich XIII (28 June 180029 January 1817) Waldeck and Pyrmont Friedrich Karl August (29 August 176324 September 1812)
Duchies Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold III (16 December 17519 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Francis (8 September 18009 December 1806) Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Georg I (1782–1803) Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816) Duke of Württemberg Frederick I (22 December 179730 October 1816)
Other Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Louis I (6 April 179014 August 1806)
Events 9 February – 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 – Friedrich Gerke, German pioneer of telegraphy (died 1888) 19 April – Gustav Fechner, German psychologist (died 1887) 16 June – Julius Plücker, German mathematician, physicist (died 1868) 14 July – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (died 1858) 10 August – Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant religious philosopher (died 1866) 3 September – Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, German palaeontologist (died 1869) 12 October – Carl August von Steinheil, German engineer, astronomer (died 1870) 23 October – Albert Lortzing, German composer (died 1851) 3 November – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859) 13 November – Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia (died 1873) 24 November – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer and collector of folk tales (died 1860) 4 December – Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher (died 1893) 11 December – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (died 1836)
Date unknown Thierry Hermès, German-born French businessman, founder of Hermès (died 1878)
Deaths 14 March – Christian Friedrich Penzel, German musician and composer (born 1737) 25 March – Novalis, German poet (born 1772) 26 April – Karl Heinrich Heydenreich, German philosopher (born 1764) 14 May – Johann Ernst Altenburg, German composer, organist and trumpeter (born 1734) 19 September – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (born 1745) 23 October – Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Kapellmeister, conductor and composer (born 1741)Dieter Härtwig and Laurie Ongley: "Johann Gottlieb Naumann," Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 12 December 2006) (subscription access).
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