Nekrolog 1772

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1772 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .

January

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
January 3rd	Antoine Le Camus	French medic	49
January 4th	Giuseppe Zonca	Italian composer
6th January	Johann Justinus Gebauer	German publisher	61
January 8th	Louis-Claude Brullé	French printer and encyclopaedist
10. January	Johann Adam Schöpf	Baroque painter
January 12th	Sigmund Haffner the Elder	Mayor of the City of Salzburg
January 12th	Christian von Kirchberg	Burgrave of Kirchberg, Count zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Imperial Chamber judge	45
January 12th	Karl Gustav von Rosen	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 17	65
January 12th	Johann Christoph Sticht	German educator, orientalist and Protestant theologian
January 14th	Susanna Margaretha Brandt	Child murderer and role model for Goethe's Gretchen	25th
January 14th	Mary of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover	Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel	48
January 16	Michael von Székely	royal Prussian major general and chief of a hussar regiment
January 17th	Johann Casimir von Gemmingen	Lawyer at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar and landlord in Bürg	31
January 17th	Johann Jakob Quandt	German theologian	85
January 20th	Maximilian Nagel	German theologian	24
January 25th	Joseph Franz Bonaventure von Schönborn-Wiesentheid	German sovereign, vice cathedral	73
January 27th	Daniel Christoph Dietrich	Austrian builder of the baroque
January 29th	Johann Friedrich Goddaeus	Vice Chancellor of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel	79

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Jean François Michel	Flemish writer	74
February 5th	Franz von le Noble	Royal Prussian Colonel and Chief of the Old Prussian Garrison Regiment No. 8th	64
February 8	Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg	Princess of Wales and mother of the British King George III.	52
February 9	Mang Anton Stapf	German sculptor	70
February 10th	Josef Wenzel	Prince of Liechtenstein	75
February 12th	Michael Caßler	Designer of the first impeller	38
13th February	Gustav Adolph von Sydow	Prussian Major General and Chief of Garrison Regiment No.	56
February 18	Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff	German diplomat	59

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd March	Johann Berenberg	Hamburg merchant, art collector and patron	53
March 10th	Friedrich III.	Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1732–1772)	72
March 10th	Martin Schmid	Swiss Jesuit missionary, musician and master builder	77
March 11	Georg Reutter the Younger	Austrian composer
March 12th	Franz de Paula Penz	Pastor and church builder	64
March 13th	Thank God Carl Springsfeld	German doctor and scholar	57
March, 20th	Johann Dietrich Schlueter	German Senate Secretary	48
March 21st	Jacques-Nicolas Bellin	French cartographer, engineer-geographer, naval hydrographer and encyclopedist
March 21st	Alexander Filippowitsch Kokorinow	Russian architect	45
March 22	John Canton	English physicist	53
March 23	Franz Xaver Anton Hauser	German sculptor of the Rococo	60
25th March	Alexander Holzhay	German organ builder	49
26th of March	Charles Pinot Duclos	French author, historian and encyclopedist	68
March 29	Martin Planta	Swiss reformed clergyman and educator	45
March 29	Emanuel Swedenborg	Swedish scientist, mystic and theologian	84
March 30	Julius Gustav Alberti	Evangelical Lutheran German preacher	48

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 8th	Ignaz Hillenbrand	Sculptor and sculptor
9th April	Johann Joseph Resler	Austrian imperial court sculptor of the Baroque	70
10th of April	Friedrich Wilhelm von Eickstedt-Peterswald	royal Prussian secret council of state and minister of war	68
10th of April	Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger	German doctor, university professor of medicine in Tübingen, councilor and personal physician and rector of the University of Tübingen	53
April 15th	Karl Josef Batthyány	Austrian general and field marshal of Hungarian origin	74
April 15th	Viktor I. Amadeus Adolf	Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym	78
April 18	Zacharias Vogel	German doctor	63
April 19th	Johann Peter Kellner	German organist and composer	66
April 21	Samuel Urlsperger	German Lutheran theologian	86
April 22	Marie Duronceray	Wife of Charles-Simon Favart	44
April 25	Jerome of Spreti	Bavarian count and general of Italian descent	77
April 27	Thomas Nugent	Irish scholar, historian and travel writer
April 28	Enevold von Brandt	Danish count and courtier	33
April 28	Johann Friedrich Struensee	German doctor and minister at the Danish court	34
April, 30th	Harman Hendrik van de Poll	Mayor of Amsterdam	74

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Gottfried Achenwall	German historian and lawyer	52
2.May	Atanasia Rednic	Bishop of Făgăraș	50
May 3rd	Johann Dietrich Findorff	Court painter and graphic artist for the Mecklenburg dukes	50
May 3rd	Georg Körner	German pastor and linguist	54
May 4th	Christian Ludwig Stieglitz	German lawyer, councilor and mineral collector	48
May 11th	Joseph Kirchhoffs	suspected German robber	47
12th of May	Johann Friedrich Gühling	German Protestant theologian	70
May 15	Joseph von Petrasch	Writer and philologist	57
May 20th	Johann Samuel Friedrich von Böhmer	German legal scholar	67
23. May	Friedrich Daniel Lamprecht	German Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Bockenem	84
25. May	Theodore Jacobsen	architect
25. May	Johann Gottfried Teske	German physicist	68
May 26	Thomas Whately	British politician and author of a garden theory book	45
28th of May	Immanuel Hoffmann	German lawyer	62
31. May	Caspar Friedrich Renner	German lawyer, Hanoverian artistic director, structural engineer and mayor	80

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 4th	Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Younger	Rococo plasterer and sculptor
June 11th	Gabriel Huquier	French artist, art dealer and collector	77
June 12	Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne	French explorer	48
June 13th	Joseph Zwinger	German Jesuit priest and university professor	67
15th June	Louis-Claude Daquin	French Baroque composer	77
18th of June	Johann Ulrich von Cramer	German lawyer and philosopher	65
18th of June	Gerard van Swieten	Austrian medic	72
June 21st	Johann Jacob von Zwierlein	German privy councilor and lawyer at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar	73
June 22	Ludwig Friedrich zu Castell-Remlingen	German sovereign and pietist	65
June 22	François-Vincent Toussaint	French author, journalist, lawyer and encyclopaedist	56
June	Raphael Courteville	English singer, organist and composer
June	Ahmad Shah Durrani	Afghan emir; first emir of the Durrani dynasty (1747–1772)

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd July	Johann Georg Krafft	German Protestant theologian and university professor	32
5th July	Heinrich Friedrich Holderlin	Convent steward in Lauffen, father of Friedrich Hölderlin	36
5th July	Wolfgang Thomas Rau	German medic	50
July 6th	Karl Gottlob Sperbach	German philologist	78
July 6th	Franz Karl Eusebius of Waldburg-Friedberg and Trauchburg	Prince-Bishop of Chiemsee	70
8th of July	Johann Bernhard von Fischer	German doctor and writer	86
10th of July	Johann Ludwig Nordtmann	German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
July 25th	Axel von Löwen	Swedish baron and knight of the Serafimer order and governor general in Swedish Western Pomerania	85

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4th of August	Eberhard Jakob Kipp	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck	65
5th of August	Franz Karl Fischer	German builder	61
5th of August	Dominik Josef Hayek from Waldstätten	Austrian civil servant and lawyer	73
13 August	Henning Otto von Dewitz	Prussian Major General, Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 1	64
August 14th	Ferdinand Karl Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden	Military person	82
August 21	Alessandro Felici	Italian composer, organist and harpsichordist	29
August 21	Wilhelm Adolf Paulli	German librettist and writer
August 31	William Borlase	English antiquarian and naturalist	77

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 6th	Johann Jacob Reinhard	Baden-Durlach privy councilor	58
13.september	David Otto Wahrendorf	German Lutheran theologian	59
September 15th	Ludwig Christian Hesse	German composer and gambist	55
September 15th	Johann Gottlob Vollsack	German Protestant theologian	73
21st September	Johann Christoph Köcher	German Lutheran clergyman and theologian	73
September 29th	Jakob Baegert	German Jesuit and missionary	54
30. September	James Brindley	British engineer

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 2nd	Kasimir Kolb von Wartenberg	Prussian major general, minister of the Swabian district	73
4th of October	Augustin Ehrensvärd	Swedish count, field marshal and artist	62
5th October	Eustachius Gabriel	German baroque painter
5th October	Justus Heinrich Jenisch	German Lutheran theologian	82
5th October	Philippe-Antoine Magimel	French goldsmith and encyclopedist
October 7th	John Woolman	North American traveling preacher and author	51
8th October	Ernst Ludwig von Borcke	Royal Prussian Colonel, Commander of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 6, Commander of the Minden Fortress and Chief of a Land Regiment
8th October	Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville	French violinist, composer and artistic director	60
8th October	David Nitschmann	Bishop of the Moravian Brethren and German missionary	76
October 10th	Louis Tocqué	French painter and portraitist	75
October 13th	George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle	British officer and politician	48
October 22nd	Franciszek Salezy Potocki	Polish magnate and voivode	72
October 27	Daniel Tilas	Swedish herald, heraldist, genealogist, mineralogist, geologist	60
28th of October	Christoph Ludwig Fehre	German composer and organist	54
30th of October	Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem	German lawyer	25th
October	Philip Florent de Puisieux	French author, translator, lawyer	58
October	John Ivory Talbot	British politician

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 5th	Pieter Steyn	Dutch pensioner (1749–1772)	66
November 7th	Luis José Velázquez de Velasco	Spanish historian, classical scholar, Romanist and Hispanist	50
November 10th	Pedro António Correia Garção	Portuguese poet	48
November 11th	Jan Maurits Quinkhard	Dutch painter of German origin	84
15th of November	Johann Christian Senckenberg	German doctor, founder, natural scientist and botanist	65
November 16	Alexander Jakob Lubomirski	Polish and Saxon general and head of the regiment	77
November 16	Johannes Schmidlin	Swiss pastor, composer and choir director	50
November 17th	Sigmund Jacob Haeckher	Architectural director and professor of geometry and mathematics	46
November 18	Christoph Ludwig von Stechow	Royal Prussian Major General, Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 9	74
30th of November	Martin Grulich	German Protestant theologian	78

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Jean-Antoine Bérard	French opera singer, singing teacher in Paris
December 1	Benedikt Werkstätter	Austrian painter
12th of December	Johann Gottfried Seyfert	German composer	41
12th of December	Johann Friedrich Stiebritz	German philosopher	65
13th December	August Gottlieb von Bornstedt	Prussian Major General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 20
15th December	Dow Bear von Mesritsch	Rabbi and leader of the Hasidic movement
December 17th	Anselm Desing	Catholic philosopher, historian and educator	73
20th of December	Johann Georg Olbers	German theologian and cathedral preacher from Bremen	56
December 27th	Adolf Friedrich von Witzendorff	German squire and prince tutor at the court of Neustrelitz	35
December 29th	Ernst Johann von Biron	Duke of Courland	82

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Johann David Blindow	German municipal lawyer, Lord Mayor of Szczecin
	Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli	Italian violinist and composer
	Ludovico Costa	Piedmontese general and viceroy
	Ignaz Finsterwalder	German plasterer
	Johann Eustachius Goldhagen	German teacher and translator
	Ernst Friedrich von der Heyden	Prussian colonel and head of the regiment
	Johann Jakob Hofmann	Swiss painter, draftsman and engraver
	Andrés Lorenzo Curbelo	Spanish clergyman
	Johann Ludwig Meil	German draftsman, painter and sculptor
	Johann Christoph Meinel	German organ builder
	Johann Patroclus Möller	Westphalian master organ builder
	Johann Friedrich nun	German doctor and botanist
	David Antonín Nývlt	chief administrator of the Nachod estate, chronicler and local writer
	Hyacinth de La Pegna	French battle and vedute painter
	Antonio Francesco Riccoboni	Italian-French actor, playwright and drama theorist
	Joachim Adam von Voss	Prussian Colonel and Chief of Grenadier Battalion No. 2.
	Michael of Smyrna	Martyrs and saints of the Orthodox Church