1801 in Germany

Events from the year 1801 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

Francis II

Important Electors

Bavaria Maximilian I Saxony Frederick Augustus I

Kingdoms

Kingdom of Prussia

* Monarch – Frederick William III

Grand Duchies

Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
* Frederick Francis I Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
* Charles II Grand Duke of Oldenburg
* Wilhelm 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 Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
* Karl August Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Principalities

Schaumburg-Lippe

Duchies

Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
* Leopold III Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
* Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen - FrederickDuke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
* Francis Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
* Georg I Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
* Frederick Charles Louis Duke of Württemberg
* Frederick I

Other

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

* Louis I

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
19 April – Gustav Fechner, German psychologist
16 June – Julius Plücker, German mathematician, physicist
14 July – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist
10 August – Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant religious philosopher
3 September – Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, German palaeontologist
12 October – Carl August von Steinheil, German engineer, astronomer
23 October – Albert Lortzing, German composer
3 November – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher
13 November – Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia
24 November – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer and collector of folk tales
4 December – Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher
11 December – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer

Date unknown

Thierry Hermès, German-born French businessman, founder of Hermès

Deaths

14 March – Christian Friedrich Penzel, German musician and composer
25 March – Novalis, German poet
26 April – Karl Heinrich Heydenreich, German philosopher
14 May – Johann Ernst Altenburg, German composer, organist and trumpeter
19 September – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer
23 October – Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Kapellmeister, conductor and composer