1829 in Germany
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Events from the year 1829 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
- Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Anthony (5 May 1827 – 6 June 1836)
- Kingdom of Hanover
- George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand duchies[edit]
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[2]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)
Principalities[edit]
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)[4]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[5]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[6]
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies[edit]
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[7]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)[8]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - Frederick[2]
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)[9]
Events[edit]
- 19 January – August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.[10]
- 11 March – German composer Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion since the latter's death in 1750, in Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.
- April–September– Felix Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain. This includes the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, and his trip to Fingal's Cave.[11]
- University of Stuttgart founded.[12]
Births[edit]
- 3 January – Konrad Duden, German philologist (d. 1911)
- 2 February- Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
- 24 February – Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist (died 1911)
- 2 March – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American statesman (d. 1906)
- 1 March – Adolf Seel, German painter (died 1907)
- 3 September – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician, physiologist (d. 1901)
- 12 September – Anselm Feuerbach, German classicist painter (died 1880)
- 7 September – August Kekulé, German chemist (d. 1896)
- 12 September – Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (d. 1880)
Deaths[edit]
- 6 January – Amalia Holst, German writer, intellectual, and feminist (b. 1758)
- 11 January – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet and critic (born 1772)
- 12 January – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet, philosopher, and philologist (b. 1772)
- 26 February – Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, German painter (b. 1751)
- 2 March – Karl Gottfried Hagen, German chemist (b. 1749)
- 21 May – Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1755)
- 15 June – Therese Huber, German writer and scholar (b. 1764)
- 7 July – Jacob Friedrich von Abel, German philosopher (born 1751)
References[edit]
- ^ "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.
- ^ "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
- ^ Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
- ^ "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
- ^ Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Armstrong, Richard Acland (1881). The Modern review. J. Clarke & Co. pp. 152–. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ Grove, George (1 October 1904). "Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony". The Musical Times. 45 (740): 644. JSTOR 904111.
- ^ "University | University of Stuttgart". www.uni-stuttgart.de. Retrieved 1 December 2020.