# 1798 in Germany

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Events from the year 1798 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

* Building of the first major example of Egyptian Revival architecture, Karlsruhe Synagogue in Baden, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.
* Friedrich von Schiller – Wallensteins Lager
* 12 October – The rebuilt Weimarer Hoftheater are inaugurated with the first performance of the first part of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein: Das Lager (The Camp), directed by Goethe.
* Caroline von Wolzogen (anonymously) – Agnes von Lilien (first complete book publication, in 2 vols)
* Francis Lathom – The Midnight Bell: a German story, founded on incidents in real life
* Cassella chemical and pharmaceutical company founded
* M. M. Warburg & Co. bank founded

## Births

* 25 March – Christoph Gudermann, German mathematician (d. 1852)
* 30 March – Luise Hensel, German religious author and poet (died 1876)
* 2 April – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d. 1874)
* 11 September – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (d. 1895)

## Deaths

* 20 January – Christian Cannabich, German musician and composer (born 1731)
* 11 April – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
* 29 April – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
* 25 May – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754)
* 20 November – Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (born 1766)