1809 in Germany
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Events from the year 1809 in Germany.
Incumbents
[edit]Kingdoms
[edit]- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[1]
- 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 Württemberg
- Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)
Grand Duchies
[edit]- Grand Duke of Baden
- Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811)
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[2]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)[3]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities
[edit]- 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 XIII (28 June 1800-29 January 1817)
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)
Duchies
[edit]- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)[7]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)[8]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[2]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)[10]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)[11]
Events
[edit]- 9 April – Tiroleans rise, under the command of Andreas Hofer, against French and Bavarian occupation.
- 14 April – Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria: Napoleon defeats Austria.
- 19 April – War of the Fifth Coalition –
- Battle of Raszyn: The armies of the Austrian Empire are defeated by the Duchy of Warsaw.
- Battle of Teugen-Hausen: The armies of the Austrian Empire are defeated by the French and their Bavarian allies.
- 21 April – Battle of Landshut
- 21/22 April – Battle of Eckmühl
- 23 April – Battle of Ratisbon
- 24 April – Battle of Neumarkt-Sankt Veit
- 8 July – Battle of Gefrees
- 29/30 July – Battle of Halberstadt
- 1 August – Battle of Ölper
- Black Brunswickers established
- Corps Hannovera Göttingen established
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach formed from a merger and raised to a grand duchy
Births
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- 3 February – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
- 24 February – Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1885)
- 21 February – Carl Ernst Bock, German physician and anatomist (d. 1874).
- 15 April – Hermann Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)
- 5 May – Frederick Langenheim, German American pioneer of panoramic photography (died 1879
- 23 May – Hugo von Kirchbach, Prussian general (d. 1887)
- 13 June – Heinrich Hoffmann, German author and children's poet (d. 1894)
- 20 June – Isaak August Dorner, German theologian (d. 1884)
- 16 July – Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz, Prussian general (d. 1877)
- 8 August – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)
- 12 September – Julius von Bose, Prussian general (d. 1894)
- 10 November – David Einhorn (rabbi), German-American abolitionist (d. 12879)
- 20 November – Gustav Koerner, German-born revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, a statesman of Illinois and Germany, Colonel of the U.S. Army (d. 1896)
- 30 December – Wilhelm von Tümpling, Prussian general (d. 1884)
Deaths
[edit]- 6 January – Johann Augustus Eberhard, German theologian, philosopher (b. 1739)
- 18 March – Karoline Kaulla, German banker (b. 1739)
- 26 April – Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)
- 1 September – Johann Friedrich August Göttling, German chemist (b. 1753)
- 7 September – Caroline Schelling, German scholar (b. 1763)
- 28 November – Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres, German lepidopterist (b. 1769)
References
[edit]- ^ Tikkanen, Amy (30 July 2018). "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- ^ a b c Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 38.
- ^ Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
- ^ a b "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
- ^ Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
- ^ J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
- ^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.