1801 in Germany

Events from the year 1801 in Germany.

Holy Roman Empire

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

Important Electors

 * Bavaria Maximilian I (16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806)
 * 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 XIII (28 June 1800 – 29 January 1817)
 * 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
 * Francis (8 September 1800 – 9 December 1806)
 * 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

 * 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)