# 1829 in Germany

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Events from the year 1829 in Germany

## Incumbents
### Kingdoms

* Kingdom of Prussia
** Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (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)
* 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)