Events from the year 1821 in Germany
Incumbents
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (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 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 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)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) - 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 Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria, wishing to build a monument to German unity and heroism (and the defeat of Napoleon), commissions Leo von Klenze to build a replica of the Parthenon on a bluff overlooking the Danube River near Regensburg, the Walhalla memorial. The only two issues of Der Bibel'sche Orient appear in Munich (April 24 and August 12). Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 31 Franz Schubert "Gesang der Geister über den Wassern", D.714; part song for male voices and low strings; Op.posth. 167 (1858) Symphony No. 7 in E major, D 729 Carl Maria von Weber – Konzertstück in F minor, for piano and orchestra, Op. 79
Births 27 January – August Becker, German landscape painter (died 1887) 19 February – August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868) 1 March – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896) 17 May – Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopath (d. 1897) 18 May – Eduard von Pestel, Prussian military officer and German general (d. 1908) 17 July – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (d. 1902) 31 August – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894) 13 October – Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
Deaths 20 April– Franz Karl Achard, German chemist, physicist and biologist (b. 1753) 22 May – Johann Georg Heinrich Feder, German philosopher (born 1740) 10 September – Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter, art historian (b. 1748) 14 September – Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist, zoologist (b. 1797) 21 October – Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)
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