Nekrolog 1797

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1797 . 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 1st	Elisabeth Sulzer	Lady of society	64
January 5th	Johann Heinrich Oden	Lower Saxony sculptor of the early modern period
January 5th	Ewald George von Pirch	Prussian lawyer, most recently president of the court court in Köslin	68
January 7th	Carl Anton von Barth	Mayor of Munich and landscape chancellor	38
10. January	Ignazio Marabitti	Italian sculptor	78
11th January	Francis Lightfoot Lee	Signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence for Virginia	62
13th January	Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern	Wife of Frederick II of Prussia and Queen of Prussia	81
January 14th	Johann Samuel Diterich	German hymn poet	75
January 16	Claude-Joseph-Alexandre Bertrand	French architect	63
January 16	Hermann Heinrich Roeck	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
January 18th	Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz	Austrian physician and botanist	74
January 25th	Franz Anton Hillebrandt	Austrian architect	77
January 26th	Johannes Petrus Bonfig	German religious, musician and composer	66
January 27th	Peter Arnold guts	German entrepreneur	63
January 30th	Antoni Barceló	Spanish navigator	79
January 30th	Johann Abraham Sixt	German classical composer	40
31 January	Carl Ludwig Traugott Glaeser	German composer and church musician	49

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	James Duane	American lawyer and politician	63
February 1st	Friedrich Christian Karl von Holwede	Prussian major general	71
February 1st	Hans Strøm	Norwegian naturalist and topographer	71
February 6th	Christian Wink	German painter	58
February 7th	Johann Jacob fencer	Swiss civil engineer, master builder and geodesist of the Baroque and Rococo	79
February 7th	Beverley Randolph	American politician	31
February 8	Johann Friedrich Doles	German composer and Thomas Cantor	81
February 12th	Antoine Dauvergne	French composer, violinist and opera director	83
February 15th	Christian Nicolaus Naumann	German poet of anacreontics	76
February 17th	Maria Anna of Saxony	Princess of Poland of Saxony, Bavarian Electress by marriage	68
20. February	Domenico Merlini	Polish-Italian architect of classicism	66
February 22	Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen	Baron Munchausen	76
February 23	Johann Gottlieb von Hoffmann	Royal Prussian Major General in Hussar Regiment No. 5
February 23	Gustav Ludwig von der Marwitz	Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general	66
February 24th	Johann Christian Rind	German businessman and founder	70
February 25	Johann Friedrich Jünger	German comedy poet	41
February 26th	Hermann Becker	German legal scholar	77
February 26th	William Cadogan	English doctor
February 26th	August of Limburg-Stirum	Prince-Bishop	75
February	Pasquale Anfossi	Italian opera composer	69

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Franz Xaver von Breuner	Passau official for the land under the Enns; by Prince-Bishop of Lavant, Cathedral Dean of Salzburg, Prince-Bishop of Chiemsee	73
2nd March	Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford	British writer, politician and artist	79
3 March	Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec	French navigator and explorer	63
3 March	Friedrich Albrecht Carl Hermann von Wylich and Lottum	Prussian officer, most recently general of the cavalry and canon of Halberstadt	76
4th of March	Ferdinand Maria von Baader	German physician, philosopher and natural scientist	50
5. March	Ludwig von Angelelli de Malvezzi	Prussian major general and leader of a free battalion, lieutenant general and chief of a grenadier regiment in Hessen-Kassel
5. March	Johann Philipp Julius Rudolph	German physician and university professor	67
5. March	John Gabriel Stedman	Scottish-Dutch soldier and author of a book on Suriname	52
7th March	Hieronymus Eschenbach	German mathematician and translator	32
8th of March	Jean Henri Samuel Formey	German theologian, author, philosopher, encyclopedist and permanent secretary of the Berlin Academy of Sciences	85
8th of March	John Hall	American politician	67
8th of March	Johann Jacob Meyen	German mathematician, professor at the Academic Gymnasium in Stettin	65
9th March	Peter Anton Brentano	German wholesale merchant and diplomat	61
9th March	Vasily Alexejewitsch Pashkewitsch	Russian composer
March 10th	Thank God Mathias von Borcke	Prussian major general	79
March 12th	Leopold Hoys	Bamberg watchmaker	83
March 13th	Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg	German diplomat, foreign court official	75
the 14th of March	Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Derby	British nobleman and, by marriage, Countess of Derby	44
March 16	Karl August Wilhelm von Gentzkow	Prussian major general and knight of the order Pour le Mérite
March 16	Karl Haidinger	Austrian mineralogist and mining scientist	40
March 18th	Peter Colomb	Prussian Finance Council and President of the Prussian War and Domain Chamber in Aurich	77
March 18th	Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter	German writer	50
March 18th	Werner von Mirbach	Hesse-Kassel Lieutenant General and participant in the American War of Independence
19th March	Philip Hayes	English composer, organist, singer and conductor
19th March	Sophie von Kühn	Fiancee Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis)	15th
March 21st	Johann Peter Silberberg	Mayor of Elberfeld	70
March 24th	Dietrich von Haas	Prussian major general
26th of March	James Hutton	Scottish naturalist and geologist	70
26th of March	Philip Christian Ribbentrop	German lawyer, writer and chronicler	60
26th of March	August Wilhelm von Treskow	Princely ansbach-Bayreuth field marshal lieutenant, Prussian lieutenant general and lastly commander in chief of all troops in Ansbach-Bayreuth	77
26th of March	Franz Xaver Zinsmeister	German theologian	55
March 30	Franz Aumann	Austrian composer	69
March 30	Jacques-Philippe Bonnaud	French division general of the Revolutionary Army	39
March 31	Benjamin of Amaudruz	Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general
March 31	Olaudah Equiano	Nigerian slave and writer
March 31	Betty Washington Lewis	Sister of George Washington	63

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Johann Peter Snell	German Lutheran theologian	77
2nd of April	Ludwig Höpfner	German lawyer	53
2nd of April	Anton Reinisch	Scythe smith in Volders and storm captain of the Rettenberger Schützen	34
3rd of April	Nonnosius Madlseder	Benedictine priest and church composer in Andechs Monastery	66
3rd of April	Giacomo Nani	Admiral and politician of the Republic of Venice	72
7th of April	Henricus Johannes Arntzenius	Dutch lawyer	62
10th of April	Joseph Canto d'Irles	Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
12. April	Johann Georg Bach	German organist	45
12. April	Josef Anton Steffan	Composer, music teacher	71
April 13th	Jakob von Bernuth	Prussian War and Domain Tax Council	67
April 14th	Gualtherus Michael van Nieuwenhuizen	old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht
April 15th	Pedro Melo de Portugal y Villena	Viceroy of the Río de la Plata	63
April 18	Georg Friedrich von Böhmer	German diplomat in the service of Prussia	57
April 23	Giovanni Battista Andreoni	Italian opera singer
26th of April	Johann Friedrich Ludwig Häseler	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and mathematician	64
April 27	Heinrich Ludwig	Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken	29
April 27	Christoph Moritz von Roëll	Prussian major general	84
April	François Racine de Monville	French administrator of the king and amateur architect	62

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Johann Baptist von Alxinger	Austrian poet and writer	42
1st of May	Franz Anton von Hartig	Austrian diplomat, historian, poet and geographer	38
May 7th	Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting	Austrian entomologist and botanist	43
May 7th	Jedediah Strutt	British textile industrialist and inventor	70
12th of May	Karl Anton Dominik von Otto	Royal Prussian major general and most recently in command of the Cosel Fortress	73
May 13th	Anton Friedrich Kahn	German fencing master
May 14th	Giovanni Fagnano	Italian mathematician and clergyman	82
May 14th	Walter Livingston	American politician	56
May 14th	Johann Joachim Susemihl	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
17th of May	Michel-Jean Sedaine	French stage poet
May 19th	Joseph Aloys von Hofstetten	German engineer and general building director of the Palatinate	60
May 19th	Ernst Christoph von Kaunitz-Rietberg	Governor of Moravia, court official and diplomat	59
May 20th	Karl Friedrich Closs	Anatomist, surgeon and university professor	29
25. May	Andrew Elliot	Governor of the British colony of New York	68
May 27th	François Noël Babeuf	French agitator and journalist	36
May 27th	Augustin Alexandre Darthé	French politician and revolutionary
28th of May	Anton Raaff	German tenor	83
May 29th	Karl Joseph Bouginé	German Protestant theologian and teacher	62
May 29th	Stephan Dorfmeister	Painter, whose works were mainly created in Burgenland and Transdanubia

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2th of June	Dominic of Brentano	Swiss publicist, enlightenment theologian and Bible translator	56
6th of June	William Hodges	English painter	52
June 13th	Christian Lofthuus	Norwegian poet
June 13th	Simon-Auguste Tissot	Swiss doctor	69
15th June	Kaspar Fabian Gottlieb von Luck	Prussian major general, governor von Ruppin	73
17th of June	Aga Mohammed Khan	persian king
June 21st	Andreas Peter von Bernstorff	Danish statesman	61
June 21st	Umina Berzeviczy	Wife of José Gabriel Condorcanqui
June 22	Justus Christian Ludwig von Schellwitz	German legal scholar	61
June 27th	Johann Christoph Voigtländer	German optician, founder of the Voigtländer company	64
June 28th	Abraham Fraisse	Swiss cloth merchant, merchant and architect	73
June 28th	Bernhard Rode	German painter	71
June 30th	Christian Frederik Hagerup	Norwegian pastor	65

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Johann Friedrich Flattich	Protestant pastor and educator	83
July 1	Johann Christian Wentzinger	German sculptor, painter and architect of the Rococo	86
July 9	Edmund Burke	Writer, state philosopher and politician	68
July 11th	Ienăchiță Văcărescu	Wallachian diplomat, poet, historian, Romanist and Romanist
July 14th	Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc	Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Knights and Hospitallers of St. John in Jerusalem	72
July 18th	Johann Georg Ferdinand von Damm	royal Prussian major general, commander of Stettin and governor of Tangermünde	80
21 July	Bertrand Pelletier	French chemist	35
21 July	Johann Heinrich Wloemer	German lawyer	71
24th July	Johann Jacobé	Austrian engraver
July 25th	Maria Antonia Anna of Hohenzollern-Hechingen	Princess of Fürstenberg	36
July 27th	Bogislav Ernst von Bonin	Prussian lieutenant general
29th of July	Christoph Rheineck	German composer	48
July	Nathaniel Lawrence	American lawyer and politician

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd August	Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst	British general	80
3rd August	James Davenport	American lawyer and politician	38
6th of August	Johann Matthias von Bernuth	German civil servant	81
August 7th	James Searle	American politician
8th August	Franz Alexander von Kleist	poet	27
12. August	Gotthelf Greiner	Glassmaker and co-inventor of Thuringian porcelain	65
17th August	Georg Ludwig Böhmer	German legal scholar	82
August 19th	Teresa Cornelys	Italian opera singer and entrepreneur
August 21	Benedikt Stattler	German Catholic theologian, educator and philosopher	69
August 22nd	Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser	Austrian field marshal	73
August 23	Elie Bertrand	Swiss pastor and scientist
August 24th	Egmont by Chasôt	Prussian officer and later city commander of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck	81
August 24th	Karl Friedrich Adam von Schlitz	Prussian general of the cavalry	63
August 25	Rudolf Albini	German plasterer
August 25	Thomas Chittenden	American statesman and governor of the US state of Vermont	67
August 25	Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray	French politician during the French Revolution	37
August 27	Carl Philipp von Venningen	District President and Senior Administrator
August 28th	Gottfried Less	German Lutheran theologian	61
August 28th	Joseph Wright of Derby	British painter	62

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 10	Mary Wollstonecraft	English writer and suffragette	38
13.september	Georg Franz Wiesner	German Catholic theologian and university professor	66
September 18	Christian Franz of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and General	67
September 18	Lazare Hoche	French general of the revolutionary era	29
September 18	Franz Ignaz Oefele	German painter and etcher	76
September 19th	Johann Friedrich Daube	German composer, music theorist and lutenist of the pre-classical period
21st September	Karl Schallhas	Austrian painter
21st September	Dominikus Schramm	Religious and canon lawyer	73
September 22	Christiane Becker-Neumann	German actress	18th
September 26th	Whitmell Hill	American politician	54
September 28th	Gunning Bedford	American politician and governor of the state of Delaware (1796–1797)	55
September 28th	Samuel Luther from Geret	German Protestant theologian, lawyer and politician	67
30. September	Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer	German historian and legal scholar	47

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Andreas Balzar	German robber	28
4th of October	Georg Bodenschatz	German Protestant theologian	80
4th of October	Anthony Keck	British architect
October 6th	Johann Matthäus Hassencamp	German Protestant theologian, orientalist and mathematician	49
9th October	Gaon of Vilna	Rabbi and Scholar	77
October 10th	Carter Braxton	American founding father	61
October 11th	Christian Ludwig von Kenitz	Prussian lieutenant general, heir to Falkenberg	73
October 14th	Hans Ernst von Hardenberg	German Freemason	68
October 17th	Nikolaus Albrecht von Baehr	royal Prussian major general	79
October 18	George Lorenz von Pirch	Prussian major general	67
October 21	Casper Friedrich von Gähler	Danish major general	61
October 21	Johann Christian Anton Theden	Prussian military doctor, surgeon and natural scientist	83
October 29th	Christoph Ludwig Kämmerer	German naturalist	41

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 1st	Hermann Bräss	German Protestant pastor and newspaper editor	59
November 4th	Charles Gautier de Vinfrais	French lawyer, economist and encyclopaedist	92
November 13th	Friedrich Ludwig von der Trenck	Prussian major general	66
14th November	Januarius Zick	German painter and baroque architect	67
November 16	Friedrich Wilhelm II.	King of Prussia (1786–1797)	53
November 26th	Andrew Adams	American politician	61
November 26th	Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov	Russian count, tsarina lover and university founder	70
November 27th	Carl Christian Agthe	German composer and organist	35
November 27th	Johann Baptist Wendling	German composer of the Mannheim School and flautist	74

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Christoph Friedrich von Schöning	Royal Prussian Major General in Cuirassier Regiment No. 2
December 1	Oliver Wolcott	Founding father of the USA	71
December 4th	Francesco Gennari	Italian anatomist and discoverer of the Gennari Strip	47
December 5th	Balthasar Ludwig Christian von Wendessen	Prussian lieutenant general, governor of Neisse and finally of Warsaw	73
6th of December	Daniel surge	German painter and draftsman
December 7th	Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet	French politician and general	40
11th December	Emanuel joke	Swiss painter	80
12th of December	Friedrich Erdmann	German nobleman, Duke of Anhalt-Koethen	66
13th December	Louis Legendre	Politician during the French Revolution	45
15th December	Konstantin Nathanael of Salenmon	Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the Wesel Citadel	87
December 16	Maria Barbara Wäser	Actress and theater director
19. December	Jakob Friedrich von Berg	Prussian major general	63
December 22	Giovanni Marco Rutini	Italian composer	74
23rd of December	Friedrich Eugene	Duke of Württemberg	65
December 26th	John Wilkes	British politician, journalist and writer	70
December 28th	Léonard Duphot	French poet and general	28
December 29th	Anton Adam Bachschmid	Austrian-German composer	69
30th of December	Juan de Ayala	Spanish officer	52
30th of December	Heinrich Julius death	German theologian, educator, poet, mycologist, architect and draftsman	64

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Bernhard Breunig	German Benedictine abbot
	William Cumming	American politician
	Arthur Donaldson	American shipbuilder and inventor
	Düdul Dorje	Tibetan Lama
	Franz Caspar Benedikt Egloff	Austrian doctor and professor at the University of Innsbruck
	Samuel Enderby	British entrepreneur, trader and founder of the whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons
	Franz von Gemmingen	Landlord in Steinegg and Tiefenbronn and a councilor in the knightly canton of Neckar-Black Forest
	Ludwig Michael von Jeney	General during the Seven Years' War
	Johann Heinrich Keppele	German emigrant and first President of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
	Clemens August von Kleist	Elector General of Cologne
	Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger	German composer and musician
	Franz Lidtmann	German Baroque painter
	Juan Manuel Olivares	Venezuelan composer
	Siegmund Adrian von Rothenburg	German naturalist (entomologist)
	Anton Ludwig Stürler	Bern officer and magistrate
	Clayton Tarleton	British businessman and politician
	Peter Van Gaasbeck	American politician
	Molla Pənah Vaqif	Azerbaijani statesman and poet
	Henry Venn	British preacher of the Church of England
	Justin Vulliamy	Swiss-English watchmaker
	Yuan Mei	Chinese poet, gourmet and author of a Chinese cookbook