1803 in Germany

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Events in the year 1803 in Germany.

Events

• 25 February – A major redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is enacted via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
• 30 May – Following Britain's declaration of war on France, Édouard Mortier leads 12,000 troops in an Invasion of Hanover
• 5 July – The convention of Artlenburg confirms the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).

Births

January–June

• 15 February
  • John Sutter, pioneer (died 1880)[1]
  • Karl Friedrich Schimper, botanist, naturalist and poet (died 1867)[2]
• 26 February – Arnold Adolph Berthold, physiologist and zoologist (died 1861)[3]
• 17 March Carl Jacob Löwig, chemist (died 1890)[4]
• 12 May – Justus von Liebig, chemist (died 1873)[5]

July–December

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

Deaths

Johann Gottfried Herder

January–June

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

July–December

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

References

1. Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
2. "Karl Friedrich SCHIMPER". GEDBAS. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
3. "Arnold Adolph Berthold and the Transplantation of Testes" (PDF). The Endocrinologist. 6 (3): 164–168. May 1996.
4. Hans Heinrich Landolt (1890). "Nekrolog: Carl Löwig" (PDF). Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft. 23 (3): 905–909. doi:10.1002/cber.18900230395.
5. "J. von Liebig (1803 - 1873)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 26 July 2015.