1829 in Germany

Events from the year 1829 in Germany

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Incumbents

Kingdoms

• 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

• Grand Duke of Baden
  • Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Hesse
  • Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)^[3]
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

Adolf Eugen Fick

August Kekulé

• 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

• 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

1. "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
2. 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.
3. Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.
4. "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
5. Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
6. "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
7. Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
8. 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.
9. "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
10. Armstrong, Richard Acland (1881). The Modern review. J. Clarke & Co. pp. 152–. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
11. Grove, George (1 October 1904). "Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony". The Musical Times. 45 (740): 644. JSTOR 904111.
12. "University | University of Stuttgart". www.uni-stuttgart.de. Retrieved 1 December 2020.