title: 1819 in Germany
text: # 1819 in Germany
  
  Events from the year 1819 in Germany.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Kingdoms
  
  * Kingdom of Prussia
     * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (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 III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820)
  * 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
  
  * 23 March – In Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German dramatist August von Kotzebue is assassinated by Karl Ludwig Sand.
  * 1 July – German astronomer Johann Georg Tralles discovers what will be called the Great Comet of 1819
  * 20 September – Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederation
  
  ## Publications
  
     * E. T. A. Hoffmann
        * The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
        * Das Fräulein von Scuderi: Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten (novella published in Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1820)
  * Joseph von Eichendorff – Das Marmorbild
  * Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
  * Jacob Grimm – Deutsche Grammatik
  
  ## Births
  
  * 8 January - Mary Frances Schervier, Germane founder of two religious congregations of Religious Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, (died 1876)
  * 10 January – Karl Heine, German lawyer and entrepreneur (died 1888)
  * 8 February – Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, German writer and politician (died 1904)
  * 10 February – Albert Schwegler, German philosopher and Protestant theologian. (died 1857)
  * 11 February – Ottilie Assing, German feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist. (died 1884)
  * 17 February
     * Philipp Jaffé, German historian and philologist (died 1870)
     * Max Schneckenburger, German writer (died 1849)
  * 20 February – Ludwig Simon, German lawyer and politician (died 1872)
  * 22 February – Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher (died 1888)
  * 25 February – Peter Friedhofen, German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians (died 1860)
  * 1 March – Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, German surgeon (died 1895)
  * 24 March – Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist (died 1889)
  * 26 March – Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist (died 1895)
  * 31 March – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (died 1901)
  * 11 April – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (died 1895)
  * 24 April – Klaus Groth, German poet (died 1899)
  * 2 May – Gustav Becker, German clockmaker (died 1885)
  * 7 May – Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German-Baltic astronomer (died 1905)
  * 27 May – George V of Hanover, German monarch of kingdom Hannover (died 1878)
  * 17 June – Albert Dulk, German writer (died 1884)
  * 20 June – Jacques Offenbach, German composer (died 1880)
  * 22 June – August Wöhler, German railway engineer (died 1914)
  * 3 July – Théodore Gouvy, German composer (died 1898)
  * 6 July – Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist (died 1892)
  * 16 July – Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold, German mathematician (died 1884)
  * 20 July – Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, German publicist and philosopher (died 1880)
  * 12 August – Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (died 1874)
  * 22 August – Johann Nepomuk Brischar, German Roman Catholic church historian (died 1897)
  * 26 August – Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (died 1861)
  * 13 September – Clara Schumann, German composer and pianist (died 1896)
  * 22 September – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (died 1897)
  * 16 October – Arnold Schaefer, German historian (died 1883)
  * 17 October – Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German sovereign (died 1904)
  * 25 October – Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist (died 1904)
  * 12 November – Daniel Sanders, German lexicographer (died 1897)
  * 16 November – Wilhelm Marr, German journalist (died 1904)
  * 1 December – Philipp Krementz, German catholic bishop (died 1899)
  * 22 December – Franz Abt, German composer and choral conductor (died 1885)
  * 23 December – Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, German gynecologist and obstetrician (died 1892)
  * 26 December – Hermann Blumenau, German pharmacist (died 1899)
  * 30 December – Theodor Fontane, German writer (died 1898)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 12 January – Benedikte Naubert, German writer (born 1752)
  * 28 January – Johann Karl Wezel, German poet (born 1747)
  * 10 March – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (born 1743)
  * 23 March – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (born 1761)
  * 30 June – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, German composer (born 1746)
  * 20 July – Xaver Hohenleiter, German criminal (born 1788)
  * 29 July – Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel, German writer (born 1779)
  * 12 September – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (born 1742)
  * 20 October – Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, German philosopher (born 1780)
  * 5 December – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (born 1750)
  