1821 in Germany

Events from the year 1821 in Germany

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
• Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
• 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 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)
• 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)
• 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.
• 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)
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
• Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
• Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
• George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
• Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)
• Duke of Brunswick
• Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)
• 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)
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)

Events

• Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria, wishing to build a monument to German unity and heroism (and the defeat of Napoleon), commissions Leo von Klenze to build a replica of the Parthenon on a bluff overlooking the Danube River near Regensburg, the Walhalla memorial.
• The only two issues of Der Bibel'sche Orient appear in Munich (April 24 and August 12).
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 31
• Franz Schubert
• "Gesang der Geister über den Wassern", D.714; part song for male voices and low strings; Op.posth. 167 (1858)
• Symphony No. 7 in E major, D 729
• Carl Maria von Weber – Konzertstück in F minor, for piano and orchestra, Op. 79

Births

• 27 January – August Becker, German landscape painter (died 1887)
• 19 February – August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868)
• 1 March – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
• 17 May – Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopath (d. 1897)
• 18 May – Eduard von Pestel, Prussian military officer and German general (d. 1908)
• 17 July – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (d. 1902)
• 31 August – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894)
• 13 October – Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)

Deaths

• 20 April– Franz Karl Achard, German chemist, physicist and biologist (b. 1753)
• 22 May – Johann Georg Heinrich Feder, German philosopher (born 1740)
• 10 September – Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter, art historian (b. 1748)
• 14 September – Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist, zoologist (b. 1797)
• 21 October – Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)

References