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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 |
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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 |