page_title: 1797
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1797 / Births / January–March
context_page_description: 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1797th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 797th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1797, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1
  Christopher Jacob Boström, Swedish philosopher (d. 1866)
  Robert Crittenden, American attorney, politician (d. 1834)
  William Greene, lieutenant governor of the state of Rhode Island (d. 1883)
  Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese woodblock printer (ukiyo-e) (d. 1861)
  January 2 – Eliakim Littell, American editor (d. 1870)
  January 3 – Frederick William Hope, English entomologist at the University of Oxford (d. 1862)
  January 4
  Wilhelm Beer, German banker, astronomer (d. 1850)
  John Hampden Pleasants, American journalist, businessman (d. 1846)
  January 5
  Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein, Prussian general (d. 1885)
  Timothy Gilbert, American piano manufacturer (d. 1865)
  January 6
  Edward Turner Bennett, English zoologist, writer (d. 1836)
  James Kingsley, attorney and mayor of Ann Arbor (1855–1856) (d. 1878)
  January 7 – Henry Piddington, English merchant captain sailing in East India and China and later settling in Bengal (d. 1858)
  January 8 – David Barker Jr., American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1834)
  January 9 – Edmund Murray Dodd, Canadian lawyer (d. 1876)
  January 10
  Hazen Aldrich, early American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (d. 1873)
  Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
  Eugenio Kincaid,  American Baptist missionary to Burma (d. 1883)
  January 11
  Carl Rottmann, German landscape painter, the most famous member of the Rottmann family of painters (d. 1850)
  Connop Thirlwall, English bishop (in Wales), historian (d. 1875)
  January 12
  Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician, writer (d. 1873)
  George Evans, American politician from the state of Maine (d. 1867)
  January 14 – George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, British peer and man of letters (d. 1833)
  January 15 – Vincenz Kollar, Austrian entomologist specializing in Diptera (d. 1860)
  January 16 – Richard Barnes Mason, career officer in the United States Army, governor of California (d. 1850)
  January 17 – Joseph Barclay Pentland, Irish geographer (d. 1873)
  January 19
  Henri-Bernard Dabadie, French baritone (d. 1853)
  Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter (d. 1870)
  January 20 – Jonathan Leavitt, American bookbinder, co-founder of the New York City publishing firm of Leavitt & Trow (d. 1852)
  January 21 – Joseph Méry, French writer (d. 1866)
  January 22
  Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria (d. 1826)
  Charlotte Lyon-Bowes, Lady Glamis, English noblewoman, daughter of Joseph Valentine Grimstead (d. 1881)
  Thomas Moore-Lane, Irish oculist, surgeon, physician to the Nawab (d. 1844)
  January 24
  Leo Dupont, Martinique-born Venerated French Catholic, who helped spread various Catholic devotions (d. 1876)
  John Shaw-Lefevre,  British barrister, Whig politician and civil servant (d. 1879)
  January 25
  Achille Rémy Percheron, French entomologist (d. 1869)
  John Stuart, 12th Earl of Moray (d. 1867)
  January 26 – Therese Albertine Luise Robinson, German-American author (d. 1870)
  January 28
  Obadiah Bush, American prospector, businessman (d. 1851)
  Narcisse Girard, French violinist (d. 1860)
  Charles Gray Round, English barrister, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for North Essex 1837–47 (d. 1867)
  Félix Tanco, Colombian-born Cuban writer, poet, and novelist (d. 1871)
  January 29
  Marguerite Beaubien, Canadian nun, mother superior with the Sisters of Charity (d. 1848)
  Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian nobleman (d. 1873)
  January 30
  John Fairfield, U.S. politician from Maine (d. 1847)
  Edwin Vose Sumner, career United States Army officer who became a Union Army general during the American Civil War (d. 1863)
  January 31 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist, composer (d. 1828)
  February 1 – Frederick Sullivan, English first-class cricketer associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (d. 1873)
  February 2
  Joseph Louis Corbin, French general who took command of the successful attack that lifted the Siege of Constantine in 1837 (d. 1859)
  Lambert Blackwell Larking, English clergyman (d. 1868)
  Bertha Zück, German-born treasurer of Queen Josephine of Sweden (d. 1868)
  February 4
  Armine Simcoe Henry Mountain, British Army officer, Adjutant-General in In
caption: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
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