1803 in Germany

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Events in the year 1803 in Germany.

Events

• February 25 – A major redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is enacted via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
• July 5 – The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).

Births

January–June

• February 15
  • John Sutter, pioneer (died 1880)
  • Karl Friedrich Schimper, botanist, naturalist and poet (died 1867)
• February 26 – Arnold Adolph Berthold, physiologist and zoologist (died 1861)
• March 17 Carl Jacob Löwig, chemist (died 1890)
• May 12 – Justus von Liebig, chemist (died 1873)

July–December

• July 8 – Julius Mosen, poet (died 1867)
• July 17 – Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton, anatomist (died 1854)
• July 19 – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, mineralogist and writer (died 1882)
• October 5 – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (died 1844)
• November 29 – Gottfried Semper, architect (died 1879)
• September 26 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter (died 1884)
• October 6 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879)
• December 31 – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German paleoanthropologist (died 1877)

Deaths

Johann Gottfried Herder

January–June

• February 18 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, poet (born 1719)
• March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (born 1724)

July–December

• December 18 – Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher and writer (born 1744)