Nekrolog 1798

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1798 . 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	Erekle II.	Georgian king	77
January 2nd	Wilhelm von Freytag	Field Marshal Electorate Braunschweig-Lüneburg	77
January 4th	Giuseppe Giordani	Italian classical composer	46
January 4th	Gavin Hamilton	British painter, archaeologist and art dealer
January 5th	William Flackton	English composer, musician and publisher	88
January 16	Emanuel Ernst Albrecht von Czettritz	Prussian major general	68
January 9th	Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, conde de Aranda	Spanish politician, minister, military person	78
January 14th	Otto Friedrich Butendach	German Evangelical Reformed theologian	67
January 18th	Ulrich Carl von Bassewitz	Mecklenburg landowner, Prussian officer, last common ancestor of today's members of the von Bassewitz family in the Mecklenburg main line	68
January 20th	Christian Cannabich	German violinist, conductor and composer
22nd of January	Lewis Morris	British-American landowner, signer of the United States 'Declaration of Independence, one of the United States' founding fathers	71
22nd of January	Matija Antun Relković	Croatian literary man of the Enlightenment	66
January 25th	Anselm Viola i Valentí	Catalan music teacher and composer
January 26th	Christian Gottlob Neefe	German composer, organist, conductor and musicologist	49
January 28th	Zanobi del Rosso	Italian architect and poet	73

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Johann Christoph Berndt	German mirror maker, engraver, mechanic and globe maker	≈90
February 1st	Josef Gerl	Austrian architect	63
February 2nd	Carl Abraham Gütschow	Lawyer, businessman and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
February 2nd	Jacob Hermann Obereit	Swiss writer, philosopher, surgeon and rediscoverer of a Nibelung manuscript	72
February 9	Franz Joseph Soll	Rococo church painter
February 12th	Stanislaus II August Poniatowski	last King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania	66
13th February	Christian Friedrich Schwartz	German Evangelical Lutheran missionary in India	71
13th February	Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder	German romantic writer	24
February 15th	Pierre Bayen	French chemist	73
February 15th	Johann Baptist Enderle	German baroque painter	72
February 25	Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini	French politician and writer	81
February 25	Johann Friedrich von Normann	Royal Prussian major general and most recently commander of the depot battalion in Infantry Regiment No. 18	63
February 25	Johann Siegmund von Oppel	Landscape Treasurer, Privy Councilor	67
27th of February	Squidward Huber	Austrian composer	55
27th of February	Johann Julius Hummel	German music publisher	69
27th of February	Heinrich Ferdinand Möller	German actor and writer
February 28	Johann Andreas Heinemann	Hessian organ builder	81
February	Anselm Franz Bacon	Bell founder in Heidelberg

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5. March	Karl Ludwig von Erlach	Swiss general	51
6th March	Bernhard Bierbaum	German dept	67
8th of March	Franz Cölestin von Beroldingen	German theologian and geologist	57
9th March	Friederike Dorothea Sophia of Brandenburg-Schwedt	Princess of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by marriage Duchess of Württemberg	61
March 13th	Genovefa Weber	German opera singer and actress, mother of Carl Maria von Weber	34
March 16	Aloys Blumauer	Austrian writer	42
March 16	Benedikt Josef von Koller	dramatic poet	30th
17. March	Martial-Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire	French bishop	79
17. March	Johann Friedrich Mayer	German pastor and agricultural reformer	78
17. March	Lewis Allaire Scott	American politician	39
19th March	Johann Christian Foerster	German philosopher, historian and political scientist	62
March 21st	Albert Philipp Frick	German lawyer and university professor	64
March 30	Johann Nepomuk Kaňka senior	Lawyer and composer

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Johann Wilhelm Schmid	German Protestant theologian	53
3rd of April	Ludger Zurstrasse	German clergyman, priest and abbot of the Liesborn monastery	66
4. April	Johann Nepomuk Hunczovsky	Austrian doctor	45
April 5th	Heinrich-Johann von Droste zu Hülshoff	German lieutenant general and governor of Munster	63
9th April	Josef Friedrich Wilhelm	Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1750–1798)
11 April	Karl Wilhelm Ramler	German poet and philosopher	73
April 21	Alexander Hood	British captain and naval officer	39
April 22	Matthias Munggenast	Austrian baroque master builder	69
April 22	Sebastian Seemiller	German Catholic theologian	45
April 23	Georg Friedrich Werner	German surveying technician, construction technician and university professor	43
April 25	Paul Schmidt	German organ builder
April 29	Nicolaus Poda von Neuhaus	Austrian entomologist and Jesuit	74

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2.May	Maarten Houttuyn	Dutch doctor and naturalist
5th of May	Ernst Ludwig von Pfuhl	Prussian general of the infantry, governor of the Spandau citadel, inspector general of the Brandenburg infantry	81
May 9	Georg Ernst from and to Gilsa	German officer, colonel, council of war and conqueror	57
10th of May	Georg von Stengel	Chancellery director of the Electoral Palatinate and State Councilor	77
10th of May	George Vancouver	British Royal Navy officer and explorer	40
May 14th	David Ruhnken	German-Dutch scholar and librarian at the University Library in Leiden	75
May 14th	Carl Gottlieb Svarez	Prussian lawyer and judicial reformer	52
May 14th	Friedrich August Valentin Voit from Salzburg	royal Prussian major general and Ansbach colonel	63
May 15	John Fell	American politician	77
May 15	Thomas Jenkins	British painter, art collector, antique dealer and banker	75
May 16	Joseph Hilarius Eckhel	Austrian religious, numismatist	61
May 20th	Erland Samuel Bring	Swedish mathematician	61
May 22	Thomas Chandler junior	Vermont colonial leader, American politician and judge	57
25. May	Asmus Carstens	German painter	44
May 29th	Karl von Hertzberg	Prussian lieutenant general	66
30th May	Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder	German orientalist and librarian	76
May	Johann Heinrich Müntz	Swiss landscape painter, draftsman, eraser, master builder and garden designer	70

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Johann Friedrich von Herrenschwand	Swiss doctor	83
June 4th	Nathan Bryan	American politician
June 4th	Giacomo Casanova	Italian adventurer and writer	73
June 7th	Johann Gottlieb Theophil Bosseck	German Lutheran orientalist and Hebraist	80
June 9th	Johann Georg Pforr	German animal painter	53
14th June	Christian Karl Wilhelm von Leutsch	royal Prussian major general	75
June 16	Ignaz Pfefferkorn	Religious, missionary and natural scientist	71
20th June	Jeremy Belknap	American historian	54
June 24th	Maria Christina of Austria	Archduchess	56
June 24th	Rigas Velestinlis	Greek writer and revolutionary
25th June	Martin Joseph Prandstätter	Austrian Jacobin	37
June 30th	Jacques-François de Corday d'Armont	French nobleman
June 30th	Aurelio de 'Giorgi Bertola	Italian poet

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Johann Friedrich Mende	German machine builder	54
2nd July	François-Louis Bourdon	French politician	40
2nd July	John Fitch	American technician and inventor	55
July 6th	Adrien Duport	Politician during the French Revolution	39
15th of July	Gaetano Pugnani	Italian violinist and composer	66
16th of July	Christian Gottfried Hahmann	German builder	59
July 19	Johann Gottfried Malleck	Austrian organ builder	64
21 July	Charles Joseph de Croix, comte de Clerfait	Austrian field marshal	64
21 July	John Kelly of Killanne	Irish freedom fighter
22nd of July	Johann Daniel Schade	German architect
July 25th	Carl Rudolph von Mosch	royal Prussian lieutenant general	80
July 27th	Ernestine Christine Reiske	German author and private scholar	63
29th of July	Adolph Bogislav Grulich	Lutheran theologian	69
29th of July	Melancton Smith	American officer, trader, and politician	54
July 31	Thomas von Trattner	Austrian printer, bookseller and publisher

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 1st	François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers	Commander of the French fleet in the battle of Abukir	45
August 1st	Louis de Casabianca	French naval officer	36
August 1st	Aristide Aubert Dupetit-Thouars	French admiral and navigator	37
August 1st	John Swanwick	American politician
4th of August	Friedrich Wilhelm Koehler	Saxon Evangelical Lutheran pastor and chronicler	57
6th of August	Eberhard Heinrich Löhr	German banker and councilor	73
August 11th	Joshua Clayton	American politician	54
15th of August	Felice Alessandri	Italian harpsichordist and opera composer	50
15th of August	Thank God Naumann	Prussian regimental quartermaster and author of military history	79
15th of August	Edward Waring	English mathematician
18th of August	John Lewis Gervais	American politician
August 21	Johann Ludwig von Hordt	Prussian lieutenant general and governor of the Spandau Citadel
August 21	Johann Jakob Huber	Swiss astronomer	64
August 21	James Wilson	American legal theorist and founding father	55
August 25	Christian August von Waldeck-Pyrmont	Austrian and Portuguese general	53
August 30th	Matthias Wilhelm von Below	Prussian lieutenant general, governor of the fortress Stettin	76

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Christian Friedrich Exner	architect	80
September 1	Saint John Honeywood	American poet	35
5th September	Joshua Coit	American politician	39
7th of September	Peter Frederik Suhm	Danish-Norwegian historian	69
the 9th of September	Melchior Wyrsch	Swiss portraitist	66
September 11	Ulrich Bräker	Swiss writer	62
September 14th	Johann Martin Maximilian Einzinger from Einzing	German lawyer and writer	73
September 15th	Michael Gröll	German-born printer, publisher, bookseller and councilor
16th September	Dominik Graf Teleki von Szék	Hungarian nobleman and lawyer	25th
September 18	Samuel Benjamin Klose	German historian, author and teacher	68
September 18	Georg Andreas Will	German historian and university professor	71
21st September	George Read	British-American lawyer and statesman, one of the founding fathers of the United States	65
25th of September	Christoph Karl Friedrich von Bardeleben	Prussian major general	71
September 26th	Karl Joseph von Mirbach	German nobleman and canon	80
September 26th	Joseph Nikolaus de Vins	Austrian officer
September 27th	Johann Friedrich Ludwig Jordan von Esebeck	Minister of State of Palatinate-Zweibrücken	57
September 27th	Johann Gottlieb Portmann	German composer	58

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Gotthilf Christian Reccard	German Protestant theologian and astronomer	63
5th October	Antoine de Chézy	French hydraulic engineer	80
October 10th	Carl Gottfried Neuendorf	German theologian, educator and philanthropist	47
October 17th	Johann Samuel Göbel	Saxon finance secretary and historian	36
October 19th	Georg von Graevenitz (General, 1731)	Prussian major general and commander of Breslau	67
the 20th of October	Joshua Seney	American politician	42
October 21	Elias Christoph Krafft	German theologian	50
October 21	Johann Christoph Schmügel	German composer
October 22nd	Johann Georg Mesmer	German church painter of the Baroque era in Upper Swabia and Central Switzerland	83
October 22nd	Jozef Sułkowski	Polish and French officer	25th
October 25	Gottlieb Jacob Weizsäcker	German Hofmundkoch	62
October 27	Joseph Ussermann	German Benedictine, theologian and historian	60
28th of October	Esteban José Martínez	Spanish navigator
30th of October	Anton Hickel	bohemian painter
October	Jean-Guillaume Bruguière	French naturalist

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	Jean-Joseph d'Apcher	French nobleman	53
November 2	Charles de Wailly	French architect and urban planner	67
November 10th	Allen Jones	American politician	58
November 10th	Gabriel Lenkiewicz	Vicar General of the Societas Jesu (Jesuit Order)	76
November 10th	Hermann Andreas Pistorius	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and clergyman	68
November 11th	Friedrich Karl von Moser	German politician and political scientist	74
November 13th	Richard Tecker	Theologian and Director of the University Library Graz	66
14th November	Ajima Naonobu	Japanese mathematician
15th of November	Angelo Amorevoli	Italian opera singer (tenor)	82
15th of November	Georg Blohm	Merchant and mayor in Lübeck	65
November 17th	Ignác Batthyány	Roman Catholic bishop	57
November 18	Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm von Zollikofer	Prussian major general	61
November 19th	Theobald Wolfe Tone	Irish independence fighter	35
20th November	Blasius Columban by Bender	Austrian officer	85
21st November	Dietrich Gottfried Lamprecht	Lawyer, Lübeck councilor
November 23	Johann Eberhard Stüve	German lawyer and politician	83
November 26th	Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren	German chemist, physicist, doctor and founder of the Annals of Physics	38
November 27th	Franz Philipp Broadspeaker	German lawyer and judge at the Wismar Higher Tribunal	59
30th of November	Johann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann	German composer	32

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Christian Garve	German philosopher	56
December 4th	Luigi Galvani	Italian physician, anatomist and biophysicist	61
December 7th	Johann Christoph Heckel	German Lutheran theologian and hymn poet	51
December 8th	Richard Newton	British cartoonist	21st
9th of December	Johann Reinhold Forster	German natural scientist	69
10th of December	Laurynas Gucevičius	Lithuanian architect of classicism
13th December	Karl Friedrich von Zehmen	German bishop	78
December 16	Gaetano Brunetti	Italian composer, violinist and conductor
December 16	Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Bucholz	German medical officer, pharmacist, botanist, chemist and advisor to Goethe on scientific issues	63
December 16	Georg Christoph Conradi	German medic	31
December 16	John Henry	American politician	48
December 16	Thomas Pennant	Welsh naturalist, ornithologist and archaeologist	72
December 18th	Michael Johann of Wallis	Austrian Field Marshal and President of the Court War Council	66
19. December	Charles-Joseph Panckoucke	French writer and publisher	62
23rd of December	Felix Anton Blau	German Catholic priest, theologian, politician and enlightener in German Catholicism	44
23rd of December	Emmerich Christovich	Hungarian clergyman	87
23rd of December	Gottlob Friedrich Leberecht von Stutterheim	State Syndic of Lower Lusatia and Privy Finance Councilor	41
24th of December	Heinrich Gottlob von Braun	Prussian general of the infantry	81
24th of December	François Hilarion Point	French general of the infantry	39
December 29th	Josephus Simon Sertürner	Austrian-German surveyor and architect
December 29th	William Wales	British astronomer
30th of December	Christian Gotthelf from Gutschmid	Saxon theologian, educator and politician	77
30th of December	Nicolas-Gabriel Le Clerc	French doctor and author	72
December	Eleazer McComb	American politician	58

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Gaetano Besozzi	Italian oboist and composer
	Karl Joseph Biener von Bienenberg	Prehistoric and district chief of Königgrätz
	Hermann Bilderbeck	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
	Henri Hachette des Portes	French bishop
	Daniel Herrmann	Swiss stove
	Christopher Hewetson	Irish sculptor in Rome
	Alexander Kilham	English Methodist pastor
	Jigme Lingpa	Tibetan Dzogchen master and Tertön of the Nyingma tradition
	Francesco Milizia	Italian architect and theorist of classicism
	Johann Preuss	Organ builder
	Madeleine de Puisieux	French writer
	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schmettau	Prussian officer
	Johann Nepomuk Schöpf	Baroque painter
	Tarrare	French much eater
	Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Widenmann	German mineralogist
	Nicolaus von der Willig	German businessman and chairman of the Chamber of Commerce