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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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 receipt
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