1801 in Germany

Events from the year 1801 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

• Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)

Important Electors

• Bavaria Maximilian I (16 February 17996 August 1806)
• 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 XIII (28 June 180029 January 1817)
• 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
• Francis (8 September 18009 December 1806)
• 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

• 9 February – The Treaty of Lunéville ends the War of the Second Coalition between France and Austria. Under the terms of the treaty, Aachen is officially annexed by France.

Date unknown

• Ultraviolet radiation is discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter.
• The magnum opus Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Carl Friedrich Gauss is published.

Births

• 22 January – Friedrich Gerke, German pioneer of telegraphy (died 1888)
• 19 April – Gustav Fechner, German psychologist (died 1887)
• 16 June – Julius Plücker, German mathematician, physicist (died 1868)
• 14 July – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (died 1858)
• 10 August – Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant religious philosopher (died 1866)
• 3 September – Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, German palaeontologist (died 1869)
• 12 October – Carl August von Steinheil, German engineer, astronomer (died 1870)
• 23 October – Albert Lortzing, German composer (died 1851)
• 3 November – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859)
• 13 November – Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia (died 1873)
• 24 November – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer and collector of folk tales (died 1860)
• 4 December – Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher (died 1893)
• 11 December – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (died 1836)

Date unknown

• Thierry Hermès, German-born French businessman, founder of Hermès (died 1878)

Deaths

• 14 March – Christian Friedrich Penzel, German musician and composer (born 1737)
• 25 March – Novalis, German poet (born 1772)
• 26 April – Karl Heinrich Heydenreich, German philosopher (born 1764)
• 14 May – Johann Ernst Altenburg, German composer, organist and trumpeter (born 1734)
• 19 September – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (born 1745)
• 23 October – Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Kapellmeister, conductor and composer (born 1741)

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