Nekrolog 1798
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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 |
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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 |