1798 in Germany

Events from the year 1798 in Germany.

Holy Roman Empire

 * Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)

Important Electors

 * Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
 * Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)

Kingdoms

 * Kingdom of Prussia
 * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)

Grand duchies

 * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
 * Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)
 * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 * Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)
 * 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
 * Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Principalities

 * Schaumburg-Lippe
 * George William (13 February 1787 – 1860)
 * Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
 * Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807)
 * Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
 * Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 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 1763 – 24 September 1812)

Duchies

 * Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
 * Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 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 1775 – 25 March 1816)
 * Duke of Württemberg
 * Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

Other

 * Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
 * Louis I (6 April 1790 – 14 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

 * 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)

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)