Events from the year 1798 in Germany.
Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)
Important Electors Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799) 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 XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (12 May 1778 – 28 June 1800) 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 Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800) 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
Building of the first major example of Egyptian Revival architecture, Karlsruhe Synagogue in Baden, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner. Friedrich von Schiller – Wallensteins Lager 12 October – The rebuilt Weimarer Hoftheater are inaugurated with the first performance of the first part of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein: Das Lager (The Camp), directed by Goethe. Caroline von Wolzogen (anonymously) – Agnes von Lilien (first complete book publication, in 2 vols) Francis Lathom – The Midnight Bell: a German story, founded on incidents in real life Cassella chemical and pharmaceutical company founded M. M. Warburg & Co. bank founded
Births
31 January – Christine Genast, actress, singer and pianist (d. 1860) 25 March – Christoph Gudermann, German mathematician (d. 1852) 30 March – Luise Hensel, German religious author and poet (died 1876) 2 April – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d. 1874) 11 September – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (d. 1895) 17 December – Wilhelmine von Wrochem, flutist, singer and actress (d. 1839)
Deaths 20 January – Christian Cannabich, German musician and composer (born 1731) 11 April – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725) 29 April – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723) 25 May – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754) 20 November – Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (born 1766)Rönnau, Klaus: "Fleischmann, Friedrich", in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992),
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