“der Trieb zum arbeiten, zu schaffenden Leistungen, ist so hohen Ursprungs wie die Liebe, und läßt sich eben so wenig erzwingen”

1672Orazio Benevoli died.

1696Jan III., König von Polen died.

1770Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner was born.

1771August Bergt was born.

1784Friedrich Thiersch was born.

1793Michel François Hoguet was born.

1806Heinrich Carl Ebell writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]

1807Marianne Pfeiffer was born.

1809Caroline Unzelmann was born.

1820Ernestine Gräfin von Montgelas died.

1822Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski was born.

1822Joseph Abraham Stargardt was born.

1823Friedrich von Schlegel writes to Ludwig Tieck. [View letter]

1823Carl Maria von Weber writes to Helmina von Chézy. [View letter]

1823Carl Maria von Weber writes to Helmina von Chézy. [View letter]

1824Hinrich Lichtenstein writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]

1825Carl Maria von Weber writes to Amadeus Wendt. [View letter]

1826Georg August von Griesinger writes to Karl August Böttiger. [View letter]

1831Otto Grell died.

1831Franz Egon von Fumetti died.

1831Marie von Kleist died.

1854Henriette Sontag died.

1855Fritz Steinbach was born.

1855George Henry Rose died.

1856Johann von Plötz died.

1861Julius Knorr died.

1865Schott writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]

1868Alphonse Leduc died.

1869Peters writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]

1877Giovanni Francesco Boccaccini died.

1877Luise Förster died.

1881Franz Weber writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]

1882Igor Strawinski was born.

1883Wilhelm Krüger died.

1890Caroline Unzelmann died.

1940Leo Olschki died.