Nekrolog 1817

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This is a list of well-known people who died in 1817 . 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	Martin Heinrich Klaproth	German chemist	73
January 3rd	Wilhelm Christian von dem Bussche	German landowner and governor
January 4th	Gottlob Karl Ludwig von Corvin-Wiersbitzki	Prussian major general and commander in Hussar Regiment No. 6	60
6th January	Johann Heinrich Ayrer	German academic riding instructor
January 7th	Anton von Bucher	German theologian, writer, satirist and school reformer	70
10. January	Lorenzo Caleppi	Italian cardinal of the Roman Church	75
11th January	Timothy Dwight IV.	American clergyman, theologian, scholar, politician, and poet	64
January 12th	Juan Andrés y Morell	Spanish Jesuit and enlightener who mainly worked in Italy	76
January 14th	Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny	French opera composer	87
January 16	Alexander J. Dallas	American politician	57
January 16	Johann Bernhard Christoph Eichmann	German lawyer	68
21th January	Franz old mother	Austrian painter	71
21th January	Joseph Christian Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein	Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw	76
21th January	Fryderyk Józef Moszyński	Polish nobleman and scientist	78
January 25th	Josef Brigido von Bresowitz	Governor of Ljubljana, President of the Temescher Banat, Governor of Galicia
January 26th	Johann Wilhelm von Ernest	Prussian major general and finally brigadier of the Westphalian Fusilier Brigade	75
January 28th	Michel-François Calmelet	French engineer
January 28th	Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen	German composer and conductor	55
January 28th	Éléonore François Elie Moustier, marquis de Moustier	French diplomat	65
January 29th	Abraham Furtado	French politician
January 29th	Johann Adam Groß III	German architect and master builder	66
January 29th	Henry XIII.	Prince Reuss of Greiz	69
January 29th	Gottlob Friedrich Ernst Schönborn	German diplomat	79
January 29th	George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough	British nobleman and politician	78
January 29th	Francis Triesnecker	Austrian astronomer and geodesist	71

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
3 February	Johann Nepomuk von Apfaltern	Military person in the service of the Habsburgs
February 5th	Karl Paul von Quosdanovich	Croatian nobleman and Habsburg general, bearer of the Commander's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order
February 8	Ludwig Ferdinand von Dyherrn	Electoral major general
February 9	Franz Exchange	German clarinetist and composer	54
February 10th	Karl Theodor von Dalberg	Archbishop of Mainz, Prince Primate, Bishop of Constance	73
February 10th	Samuel Meredith	American politician
February 11th	Christian Ludwig Albrecht Patje	German civil servant and publicist, created the precursor for the Hanover address book	68
February 11th	Georg Friedrich Scharffenstein	Wuerttemberg officer	56
14th of February	John Abercrombie	British general	44
February 23	Bazyli Bohdanowicz	Polish composer
February 23	Gian Menico Cetti	Swiss translator	36
February 25	Gottlieb Hufeland	German legal scholar	56
February 26th	Georg Friedrich Sahlfeldt	German-Baltic lawyer and lieutenant governor	47
February 28	Pietro Carlo Guglielmi	Italian composer	44

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
1st March	Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann	German evangelical clergyman, author and geographer	74
1st March	Luigi Gatti	composer	76
2nd March	Giacomo Quarenghi	Italian-Russian architect	72
4th of March	Joseph Hopper Nicholson	American lawyer and politician	46
5. March	Anton Sar	German theologian and Romanist of French origin	70
6th March	Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Schoeler	Prussian major general	85
8th of March	Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire	French lawyer, statistics pioneer and cartographer	58
8th of March	Anna Maria Lenngren	Swedish writer	62
March 10th	Matthäus Heilmann	German piano and organ builder	72
March 10th	Clemens Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau-Hohenems	German nobleman, founder of the Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems line	63
March 11	George of Aranka	Hungarian writer and lawyer	79
the 14th of March	Joseph Maria Weissegger from Weißeneck	Austrian writer, historian, lawyer, philosopher and translator	61
March 16	Heinrich Matthias Marcard	German court doctor and personal physician, budget adviser and writer	69
March 18th	Johann Jakob Walder	Swiss politician, lawyer and composer	67
25th March	Johann Samuel Fuchs	Protestant superintendent and teacher	46
25th March	Joseph Thaddäus of Sumerau	German lawyer
26th of March	Johann Vincenz Caemmerer	German lawyer, comedy poet and publicist	55
26th of March	Kaspar Friedrich Lossius	German clergyman, educator and writer	64
March 29	Hugo Damian Erwein from Schönborn-Wiesentheid	German sovereign and privy councilor	78
March 31	Johannes Schuback	German businessman	84

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
April 1st	Ludwig von Flüe	Swiss officer, commander of the Swiss Guard in defense of the Bastille, therefore also bore the name Ludwig von Flüe le Bastillien	65
2nd of April	Urbain Guillet	French Trappist, prior and founder of a monastery in North America	53
2nd of April	Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling	German ophthalmologist, economist and writer	76
3rd of April	Johann Lorenz Benzler	German librarian and writer	70
3rd of April	Charlotte von Hezel	German writer, editor and journalist	62
3rd of April	Friedrich Ludwig Wachter	German mathematician	24
4. April	Robert Baikie	Scottish politician, member of the House of Commons
4. April	André Masséna	French general	58
April 14th	Kaspar Friedrich von Rentzel	Prussian major general and finally in command of the Minden fortress	75
April 5th	Samuel Christian Pape	German writer, poet and Protestant theologian	42
April 6th	Bonaventure Furlanetto	Italian composer	78
April 6th	Josef Anton Sauter	German canon lawyer
7th of April	Heinrich Friedrich von Diez	Prussian civil servant and private scholar	65
7th of April	Joseph Ritter von Petzl	German mineralogist, clergyman and natural scientist	52
April 8th	Karl Friedrich Hermann von Beeren	Prussian major general	67
11 April	Maximus of Imhof	German naturalist	58
11 April	Christian von Mechel	Swiss engraver	80
12. April	Charles Messier	French astronomer	86
April 14th	Joseph Calhoun	American politician	66
April 14th	Louis Jean Odier	Franco-Provencal doctor	69
April 18	Ephraim Wolfgang Glasewald	German architect	63
April 22	Wilhelm Magnus von Brünneck	Prussian officer, most recently field marshal general and landowner	89
April 22	Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières	French writer and librettist
April 24th	Thomas P. Grosvenor	American lawyer and politician	38
April 25	Cyrus King	American politician	44
April 25	Joseph von Sonnenfels	Austrian writer
April 27	Georg Ernst Waldau	German Protestant theologian and church historian	72
April 29	Christian August Geutebrück	Gotha archives councilor and government councilor	58
April, 30th	Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti	Italian cardinal	63
April, 30th	Sylvius of Poser	Prussian lieutenant colonel and adjutant wing	77

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
2.May	Andreas Herrlein	painter	78
2.May	Philipp Jacob Piderit	German medic	63
May 3rd	Mariano de Urquijo y Muga	Spanish representative of the Enlightenment, politician and Prime Minister
5th of May	Johann Heinrich Lips	Swiss engraver	59
May 6th	Lili Schönemann	Fiancee of Goethe	58
10th of May	Georg Haas	German engraver	60
May 11th	Viktor Wilhelm Peter Heideloff	German painter	59
May 11th	Jean-Siffrein Maury	cardinal	70
May 15	Jotham Post junior	American politician	46
May 15	Thomas Sinnickson	American politician	72
May 18	Friedrich Wilhelm Erhard von Knobloch	Prussian major general and cartographer	78
May 21	Johan Christopher Great	Swedish count, knight, field marshal and politician	74
23. May	Antoine-Grimald Monnet	French geologist
May 24th	Johann Gottfried Hempel	German physician and pharmacist	64
May 26	John Fryer	British naval officer	63
May 26	Philipp Christian von Normann-Ehrenfels	German lawyer and Minister of State of the Kingdom of Württemberg	60
28th of May	Johann Heinrich Philipp Seidenstücker	Educator and headmaster	51
28th of May	Friedrich of Baden	Titular Margrave of Baden	60
30th May	Tristram Dalton	American politician	79
30th May	Joseph Koegler	Historical researcher	52
May	Wazir Ali Khan	Indian ruler

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
June 1st	Sugita Genpaku	Japanese doctor and scholar	83
3rd of June	Johann Nepomuk von Effner	City magistrate and mayor of Munich	59
June 5th	Anton Alexander von Magnis	Large landowner in Moravia and Silesia and pioneer of modern agriculture	65
June 5th	Emanuel Meier	Baden official and politician	70
June 7th	Carl Gottlob Cramer	German writer and forest adviser	59
8th June	Samuel Huntington	American lawyer and politician	51
8th June	Théroigne de Méricourt	French revolutionary	54
June 10th	Johann Gabe	German businessman and senator in Hamburg	79
June 11th	William Gregor	English clergyman and mineralogist	55
June 13th	Richard Lovell Edgeworth	Irish scout	73
June 13th	Esther de Gélieu	Swiss teacher, headmistress and educator	59
June 13th	Ebenezer Hazard	Post Minister in the early days of the USA	73
15th June	Antoine Sabatier de Castres	French publicist, journalist and writer	75
18th of June	Leonard Neale	American clergyman, Archbishop of Baltimore	70
June 19th	Karl Ludwig von Woltmann	German historian	47
20th June	Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier	French diplomat and historian	64
23rd June	Otto Carl Erdmann von Kospoth	Prussian chamberlain and composer	63
June 24th	August Ernst von Kamptz	royal Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the Cosel fortress	59
June 24th	Thomas McKean	American lawyer and politician, signatory of the Declaration of Independence	83
June 27th	Johannes Eckstein	German sculptor, painter and draftsman	81
June 29th	Ernst Schulze	German romantic poet	28
June 30th	Christoph Daniel Ebeling	Hamburg educator, Americanist, teacher, music critic and librarian	75
June 30th	Abraham Gottlob Werner	German mineralogist	67

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
July 1	Johann Friedrich Nering Bögel	Dutch entrepreneur	61
July 4th	Simon Forrester	Captain, merchant and shipowner
July 6th	Edward Savage	American painter and engraver	55
7th of July	Johann Gottlieb von Wolff	Saxon lieutenant, district administrator and landowner in Livonia	61
10th of July	Hans Caspar Hirzel	Swiss doctor and politician	65
10th of July	Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland	British peer and soldier	74
July 14th	Sivert Knudsen Aarflot	Norwegian popular educator	57
July 14th	Anne Louise Germaine de Staël	French writer	51
15th of July	August Friedrich Pfeiffer	German Protestant theologian, orientalist and librarian	69
16th of July	Maha Senanurak	Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Siam	44
July 18th	Jane Austen	English writer	41
20th of July	Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard	French journalist	85
22nd of July	Christlieb Georg Heinrich Arresto	German actor and poet
22nd of July	François-Philippe Charpentier	French inventor and engraver (copperplate engraving)	82
24th July	Beda Aschenbrenner	German jurist for canon law and abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Oberalteich	61
July 26th	Hovhannes XI. by Bayburt	Armenian clergyman
July 26th	Karađorđe	Serb insurgent
July 26th	Johann Christian Plath	German timber merchant	79
July 27th	Emanuel Herigoyen	Portuguese builder	70
July 28th	Christian Karl Ernst Wilhelm Buri	German lawyer and writer	59

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
6th of August	Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours	French economist	77
August 9	Leopold III. Friedrich Franz	Prince of Anhalt-Dessau	76
August 9	Vincenz Pall of Pallhausen	Bavarian civil servant, archivist and historian	58
August 9	Karl Heinrich von Zielinski	royal Prussian major general	44
August 10	Edward Hempstead	American politician	37
August 10	Francis Cabot Lowell	American entrepreneur	42
August 10	Valentin von Massow	Prussian court marshal	65
August 11th	Karl Wilhelm Marshal von Bieberstein	Minister of the Interior of Baden	53
August 11th	Andrew Pickens Sr.	American politician	77
13 August	Johann Christian von Zweiffel	Prussian Major General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 45	72
August 14th	Jean-François Demandolx	French Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Amiens	72
15th of August	Peter Early	American politician	44
17th August	Johann Felix Schoch	Swiss farmer and entrepreneur
20th of August	Ludwig Wilhelm Geldricus Ernst of Bentheim and Steinfurt	Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt	60
August 27	Joseph Ignaz von Buol-Berenberg	Swiss nobleman	67
August 27	Christoph Jakob Mellin	German doctor and author	72
August 30th	Johann Schulte	German lawyer and Hamburg councilor	66
August 31	John Thomas Duckworth	British admiral

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
September 3	Jonathan Elmer	American Senator from New Jersey	71
September 3	Nicolaus Georgius Oosterdijk	Dutch medic, chemist and botanist	77
September 8th	Charles Abbot	British botanist and entomologist	56
12th September	Nathaniel Portlock	British naval officer and explorer
12th September	Christoph Johann Friedrich Otto von Zieten	Prussian lieutenant general, commandant of Königsberg, hereditary lord on Wildberg	69
September 14th	Hermine von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym	Archduchess of Austria	19th
16th September	Johann Andreas Kommerell	Ox host and royal postmaster as well as mayor of Tübingen	50
September 15th	Georg August von Breitenbauch	German poet	86
September 18	David Hall	American politician	65
September 20th	Ludwig of Württemberg	Prince of Württemberg, General of the Cavalry	61
21st September	Carl Andreas von Boguslawski	German general, translator and author	58
September 22	James Wadsworth	American politician	87
September 23rd	Rupert Kornmann	German Benedictine and theologian	60
30. September	Sophie Reimarus	German thought leader of the Enlightenment	75

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
October 1	Johann Wilhelm Immanuel Heinsius	German bookseller and bibliographer	49
October 2nd	Alexander Monro II	Scottish anatomist	84
October 2nd	Friedrich Samuel Gottfried Sack	German reformed theologian	79
4th of October	Joachim Bernhard Nicolaus Hacker	German theologian, poet and writer	56
4th of October	Étienne-François Le Tourneur	French politician	66
5th October	Jean Joseph Guieu	French Artillery Divisional General	59
5th October	Abraham Wolfgang Küfner	German engraver, art dealer and publisher	57
October 6th	Theodosius Levetzau	Danish mayor, bearer of the Dannebrog order and district administrator of the Pinneberg rule
October 7th	Nicolaus Jacob Keusch	Merchant and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck	72
8th October	Robert McClellan	American trader and politician	70
9th October	William Ely	American politician	52
October 11th	Franz Xaver Hammer	German gambist, cellist and composer
October 14th	Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov	Russian naval officer and admiral
15th October	Jean Louis Burckhardt	Swiss traveler to the Orient	32
15th October	Tadeusz Kościuszko	Polish-American general	71
October, 16th	Manuel Piar	Venezuelan military and hero of the Wars of Independence
October 18	Gomes Freire de Andrade	Portuguese general	60
October 18	Étienne-Nicolas Méhul	French composer	54
October 21	Franz Xaver Sterkel	German pianist and composer	66
23rd October	Antonio Lante Montefeltro della Rovere	Italian cardinal of the Roman Church	79
23rd October	Nathaniel Ramsey	American politician	76
October 25	Christian von Zweybrücken	French, then Prussian and later Bavarian officer, finally General of the Infantry	64
October 26th	Aida Yasuaki	Japanese mathematician	70
October 26th	Nicholas Joseph by Jacquin	Austrian botanist	90
October 26th	Moritz August von Thümmel	German writer	79
October 27	Pedro Moreno	Mexican independence fighter	42
October 27	Anton Joseph Recking	Politician
October 27	Joachim Friedrich Wilhelm Neander von Petersheiden	Prussian major general and inspector of the artillery	74
30th of October	Johann Anton Ludwig Seidensticker	German legal scholar	50

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
November 2	Joseph Leonz Andermatt	General of the Helvetic Republic	77
November 5th	Carl Haller von Hallerstein	German architect	43
November 6th	Charlotte Augusta of Wales	Crown Princess of Great Britain	21st
November 7th	Jeremiah Brandreth	British insurgent
November 7th	Jean-André Deluc	Swiss geologist and meteorologist	90
November 7th	Francesco Pasquale Ricci	Italian composer	85
November 8th	Andrea Appiani	Italian painter	63
November 11th	Francisco Javier Mina	Spanish guerrilla fighter in the war of liberation against Napoleon and in the Mexican war of independence	28
November 12th	Ernst Friedrich von Bandemer	Prussian officer
November 13th	Pietro Alessandro Banfi	Italian clergyman and bishop of Tivoli	77
14th November	Policarpa Salavarrieta	Colombian independence fighter
November 16	Simon Larned	American politician	64
November 16	William Shepard	American officer and politician	79
21st November	Abramson Meyer	German doctor
November 23	William CC Claiborne	American politician
November 26th	Pierre-Antoine Antonelle	French politician, journalist and revolutionary	70
November 27th	Carl Friedrich Meyer	German lawyer, university professor and rector of the University of Dorpat	60
November 27th	Constantin Franz Fürchtegott von Neurath	German lawyer, Württemberg civil servant and minister	40
November 29th	August Wilhelm Hartmann von Zenge	Prussian major general	81

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
December 1	Justin Heinrich Knecht	German composer, organist, conductor, music teacher and music theorist	65
3rd of December	August Eberhard Müller	German composer, virtuoso and Thomaskantor	49
3rd of December	Albrecht of Stetten	first Lord Mayor of Augsburg after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
December 7th	William Bligh	British naval officer and governor of New South Wales	63
December 8th	Matthias Steevens van Geuns	Dutch medic and botanist	82
11th December	Simon Peter Ernst	Dutch Catholic religious and historian	73
11th December	Matthew fingerless	Austrian-German Catholic theologian	69
11th December	Max von Schenkendorf	German writer	34
11th December	Maria Walewska	Beloved Napoléon Bonaparte	31
13th December	Pál Kitaibel	Hungarian botanist	60
15th December	John of Andrássy	Hungarian military
15th December	Christian August Gerhard	German organ builder	72
15th December	Giovanni Battista Guglielmini	Italian scientist	54
December 18th	Heinrich lamp	Bremen Senator and Mayor	71
December 18th	Gregor von Zirkel	Auxiliary Bishop in Würzburg, appointed Bishop of Speyer	55
21st December	Joseph Georg Mansfeld	Austrian engraver	53
December 22	Carl Hinkel	German poet	24
December 22	Sophie Caroline Marie of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfbüttel, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth	80
December 27th	Johannes Theodorus Rossijn	Dutch philosopher and mathematician	73
December 27th	Johann Leopold von Thadden	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 3	81

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Manoel Carlos de Andrade	Portuguese rider and author
	Severin Anton Averdonk	German Catholic clergyman, late Enlightenment poet, Jacobin
	Isaschar Falkensohn Behr	German-Jewish military doctor and poet
	Anton Bemetzrieder	French composer and music theorist
	Giovanni Battista Ceruti	Italian lute and violin maker
	Jean-Claude Delamétherie	French scientist
	Tobias Gutmann pen	Jewish enlightenment officer in Galicia
	Usman dan Fodio	Statesman, thinker and mystic of the Qadiriyya-Tariqa
	Rudolf Graeffer	Austrian publisher
	Eberhard Haarmann	German wood carver and builder
	Franz Karner	German Lüftlmaler
	Johann Friedrich Kierecker	Saddler, councilor, town and country umgelter, court relative and mayor of Tübingen	66
	Abraham Wolfgang Küfner	German engraver
	Peter Simon Lamine	German sculptor
	Johann Jakob Merkel	German Mayor of Baden-Württemberg
	Carl Schildbach	German zoo overseer and director of economics
	Friedrich Ernst von Spiegel	Knight of the Teutonic Order
	Thorstein Elias Hjaltelin	Icelandic miniature and landscape painter in Braunschweig
	Archibald Van Horne	American politician

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary: Ingolstädter Wochenblatt October 12, 1817: Population announcement of the parish of St.Moritz