1819 in Germany
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Events from the year 1819 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
- King of Prussia – Frederick William III of Prussia
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
- King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg
- Grand Duke of Baden – Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden
Events
- March 23 – In Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German dramatist August von Kotzebue is assassinated by Karl Ludwig Sand.
- July 1 – German astronomer Johann Georg Tralles discovers what will be called the Great Comet of 1819
- September 20 - Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederation
- undated: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, published by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- undated: Das Fräulein von Scuderi: Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten (novella published in Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1820) published by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- undated: Publishing of Das Marmorbild by Joseph von Eichendorff
- undated: The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
- undated: Deutsche Grammatik by Jacob Grimm
Births
- January 8 - Mary Frances Schervier, Germane founder of two religious congregations of Religious Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, (died 1876)
- January 10 - Karl Heine, German lawyer and entrepreneur (died 1888)
- February 8 - Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, German writer and politician (died 1904)
- February 10 - Albert Schwegler, German philosopher and Protestant theologian. (died 1857)
- February 11 - Ottilie Assing, German feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist. (died 1884)
- February 17 - Philipp Jaffé, German historian and philologist (died 1870)
- February 17 - Max Schneckenburger, German writer (died 1849)
- February 20 - Ludwig Simon, German lawyer and politician (died 1872)
- February 22 - Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher (died 1888)
- February 25 - Peter Friedhofen, German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians (died 1860)
- March 1 - Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, German surgeon (died 1895)
- March 24 - Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist (died 1889)
- March 26 – Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist (died 1895)
- March 31 – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (died 1901)
- April 11 – Charles Hallé, German pianist, conductor (died 1895)
- April 24 - Klaus Groth, German poet (died 1899)
- May 2 - Gustav Becker, German clockmaker (died 1885)
- May 7 - Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German-Baltic astronomer (died 1905)
- May 27 - George V of Hanover, German monarch of kingdom Hannover (died 1878
- June 17 - Albert Dulk, German writer (died 1884)
- June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, German composer (died 1880)
- June 22 - August Wöhler, German railway engineer (died 1914)
- July 3 - Théodore Gouvy, German composer (died 1898)
- July 6 - Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist (died 1892)
- July 16 - Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold, German mathematician (died 1884)
- July 20 - Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, German publicist and philosopher (died 1880)
- August 12 - Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (died 1874)
- August 22 - Johann Nepomuk Brischar, German Roman Catholic church historian (died 1897)
- August 26 – Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (died 1861)
- September 13 – Clara Schumann, German composer, pianist (died 1896)
- September 22 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (died 1897)
- October 16 - Arnold Schaefer, German historian (died 1883)
- October 17 - Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German sovereign (died 1904)
- October 25 - Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist (died 1904)
- November 12 - Daniel Sanders, German lexicographer (died 1897)
- November 16 - Wilhelm Marr, German journalist (died 1904)
- December 1 - Philipp Krementz, German catholic bishop (died 1899)
- December 22 - Franz Abt, German composer and choral conductor (died 1885)
- December 23 - Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, German gynecologist and obstetrician (died 1892)
- December 26 - Hermann Blumenau, German pharmacist (died 1899)
- December 30 – Theodor Fontane, German writer (died 1898)
Deaths
- January 12 – Benedikte Naubert, German writer (born 1752)
- January 28 - Johann Karl Wezel, German poet (born 1747)
- March 10 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (born 1743)
- March 23 - August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (born 1761)
- June 30 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, German composer (born 1746)
- July 20 - Xaver Hohenleiter, German criminal (born 1788)
- July 29 - Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel, German writer (born 1779)
- September 12 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (born 1742)
- October 20 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, German philosopher (born 1780)
- December 5 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (born 1750)