1829 in Germany

Events from the year 1829 in Germany

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
• Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
• 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)
• 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
• 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) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - Frederick
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)

Events

• 19 January – August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.
• 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.
• University of Stuttgart founded.

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)

• 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)

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