1819 in Germany
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{{Year in Germany|1819}}
Events from the year 1819 in Germany.
Incumbents
= Kingdoms =
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840){{Cite web|date=30 July 2018|title=Frederick William III|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}
- 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){{cite book|title=Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans| trans-title=Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA38|year=1768|publisher=Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel|location=Bourdeaux|language=fr|page=38}}
- 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){{cite book |last= Bogue|first= David| title =The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables |url= https://archive.org/details/mentimeinorsket01bogugoog| publisher =G. Barclay| year =1852| pages =[https://archive.org/details/mentimeinorsket01bogugoog/page/n299 287]}}
- 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.{{cite web |title=Oldenburg Royal Family |url=http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm |website=Monarchies of Europe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060317161934/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm |access-date=1 January 2021|archive-date=17 March 2006 }}
- 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){{cite web|title=Monarchies of Europe|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm#24.7336|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614023242/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm|archive-date=14 June 2007}}
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851){{cite book |year=1850 |publisher=Justus Perthes |edition=87th |title=Almanach de Gotha |page=38 }}
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836){{cite web |title=House of Reuss |url=http://www.europeanheraldry.org/germany/princely-houses/house-reuss/ |website=European Heraldry |access-date=28 December 2020 |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225170707/https://europeanheraldry.org/germany/princely-houses/house-reuss/ |url-status=dead }}
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
= Duchies =
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871){{cite book|title=Almanach de Gotha|year=1867|pages=3}}
- 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){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Ernest I.|volume=9|page=751}}
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866){{cite web|url=http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php|title=Biografie Georg I (German)|publisher=Meininger Museen|access-date=8 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915152148/http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php|archive-date=15 September 2011|url-status=dead}}
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825){{cite book |year=1829 |orig-year=1st pub.:1801 |editor1-last=Bille-Hansen |editor1-first=A. C. |editor2-last=Holck |editor2-first=Harald |title=Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Stats-Calender for Aaret 1829 |trans-title=Court and State Calendar of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1829 |url=https://dis-danmark.dk/bibliotek/918037.pdf#page=29 |format=PDF |series=Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender |language=da |location=Copenhagen |publisher=J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri |page=5, 8, 51 |access-date=16 September 2019 |via=:da:DIS Danmark}}
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){{cite book|author=Otto Drude|title=Theodor Fontane|publisher=Insel Verlag|year=1994|page=11}}
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){{cite book|author=Thomas H. Curran|title=Doctrine and Speculation in Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre|publisher=De Gruyter|ISBN=9783110876918|year=2013|page=6}}
- 23 March – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (born 1761){{cite book |last=Dumas père |first=Alexandre |author-link=Alexandre Dumas, père |title=Celebrated Crimes |volume=IV |publisher=Wildside Classics |pages=13–76 |chapter=Karl Ludwig Sand }}
- 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)