1811 in Germany
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Events from the year 1811 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)
- Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818[2]
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[3]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)[4]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Karl August (1809–1815)
Principalities
[edit]- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)[6]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[7]
- 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)[8]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)[9]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[3]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)[12]
Events
[edit]- 21 November – German poet Heinrich von Kleist shoots his terminally ill lover Henriette Vogel and then himself, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee near Potsdam.
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
- Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt established
- Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry established
Births
[edit]- 27 January – Ernst Dieffenbach, German scientist (d. 1855)
- 30 or 31 March – Robert Bunsen, German chemist, inventor (d. 1899)
- 30 September – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German empress (d. 1890)
- 25 October – C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian (d. 1887)
- 21 November – Ludwig Preiss, German-born British botanical collector (d. 1883)
- 28 November – King Maximilian II of Bavaria (d. 1864)
- 3 December – Eduard Bendemann, German painter (d. 1889)
- 5 December – Justus Carl Hasskarl, German explorer, botanist (d. 1894)
Deaths
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- 11 January – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai writer and bookseller (b. 1733)
- 3 February – Johann Beckmann, scientist (b. 1739)[13]
- 19 July – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer (b. 1735)[14]
- September – Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, German explorer (b. 1767)
- 8 September – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
- 21 November – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (suicide) (b. 1777)[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
- ^ von Weech, Friedrich. "Karl Ludwig Friedrich". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). p. Onlinefassung. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ John Denison Champlin; William Foster Apthorp (1899). Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 454.
- ^ Stein, Sadie (16 October 2014). "Final Chapter". The Paris Review. Retrieved 10 December 2017.