1798 in Germany

Events from the year 1798 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

• Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)

Important Electors

• Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
• Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 176320 December 1806)

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
• Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 17977 June 1840)

Grand duchies

• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• Frederick Francis I– (24 April 17851 February 1837)
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Charles II (2 June 17946 November 1816)
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg
• Wilhelm (6 July 17852 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.
• Peter I (2 July 182321 May 1829)
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
• Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
• George William (13 February 17871860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Louis Frederick II (13 April 179328 April 1807)
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 179419 August 1835)
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
• Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (12 May 1778 – 28 June 1800)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
• Friedrich Karl August (29 August 176324 September 1812)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
• Leopold III (16 December 17519 August 1817)
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
• Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800)
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• Georg I (1782–1803)
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816)
• Duke of Württemberg
• Frederick I (22 December 179730 October 1816)

Other

• Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
• Louis I (6 April 179014 August 1806)

Events

• Building of the first major example of Egyptian Revival architecture, Karlsruhe Synagogue in Baden, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.
• Friedrich von Schiller – Wallensteins Lager
• 12 October – The rebuilt Weimarer Hoftheater are inaugurated with the first performance of the first part of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein: Das Lager (The Camp), directed by Goethe.
• Caroline von Wolzogen (anonymously) – Agnes von Lilien (first complete book publication, in 2 vols)
• Francis Lathom – The Midnight Bell: a German story, founded on incidents in real life
• Cassella chemical and pharmaceutical company founded
• M. M. Warburg & Co. bank founded

Births

• 31 January – Christine Genast, actress, singer and pianist (d. 1860)
• 25 March – Christoph Gudermann, German mathematician (d. 1852)
• 30 March – Luise Hensel, German religious author and poet (died 1876)
• 2 April – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d. 1874)
• 11 September – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (d. 1895)
• 17 December – Wilhelmine von Wrochem, flutist, singer and actress (d. 1839)

Deaths

• 20 January – Christian Cannabich, German musician and composer (born 1731)
• 11 April – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
• 29 April – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
• 25 May – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754)
• 20 November – Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (born 1766)

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