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)Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766. 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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