1799 in Germany
# 1799 in Germany

Events from the year 1799 in Germany.

## Incumbents

### Holy Roman Empire

* Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)

**Important Electors**

* Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
* Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)

### Kingdoms

* Kingdom of Prussia
   * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)

### Grand Duchies

* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
   * Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
   * Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)
* 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
   * Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

### Principalities

* Schaumburg-Lippe
   * George William (13 February 1787 – 1860)
* Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
   * Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807)
* Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
   * Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 August 1835)
* Principality of Reuss-Greiz
   * Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (12 May 1778-28 June 1800)
* Waldeck and Pyrmont
   * Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)

### Duchies

* Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
   * Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)
* Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
   * Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
* Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
   * Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800)
* Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
   * Georg I (1782–1803)
* Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
   * Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)
* Duke of Württemberg
   * Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

### Other

* Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
   * Louis I (6 April 1790 – 14 August 1806)

## Events

* December 3 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
* Frankenthal Porcelain Factory closed by the French forces.

## Births

* January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (died 1872)
* May 26 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (died 1853)
* March 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, German astronomer (d. 1875)
* March 28 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician, noted for reporting the symptoms of Graves–Basedow disease (d. 1854)
* October 18 – Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist (d. 1868)
* Eduard Clemens Fechner, German portrait painter and etcher (died 1861)

## Deaths

* February 1 – Ferdinand Kobell, German painter and engraver (born 1740)
* February 16 – Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1724)
* February 18 – Johann Hedwig, German bryologist (born 1730)
* February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile (b. 1742)
* March 18 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor (born 1717)
* March 29 – Helena Dorothea von Schönberg, German industrialist (d. 1729)
