1829 in Germany

Events from the year 1829 in Germany

Kingdoms

 * Kingdom of Prussia
 * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (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)