“ich muß auch das leichteste mit Schwierigkeit erringen, in Allem spricht sich meine Bestimmung zu kämpfen und zu ringen aus”
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What happened on February 16?
1497Philipp Melanchthon was born.
1620Friedrich Wilhelm, Kurfürst von Brandenburg was born.
1747Heinrich XIII. Fürst Reuß (ältere Linie) was born.
1760Ulrich Lebrecht von Mandelsloh was born.
1773Johanna Franul von Weißenthurn was born.
1774Pierre Rode was born.
1780Johann Manetinsky was born.
1785Friederike Caroline von Beust was born.
1786Maria Pawlowna, Großherzogin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach was born.
1786Johann Georg Schürer died.
1797Carl Maria von Weber writes to Edmund von Weber. [View letter]
1799Heinrich Wolfram was born.
1799Karl IV., Pfalzgraf und Kurfürst von der Pfalz died.
1801Konstantin, Fürst von Hohenzollern-Hechingen was born.
1801Emilie Hoguet was born.
1803Johann Wenzel Stich died.
1803Karl Emil von Schafhäutl was born.
1804Constantin Holland was born.
1816Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein died.
1816Ida Jähns was born.
1817Carl Maria von Weber writes to Carl Graf von Brühl. [View letter]
1817Carl Maria von Weber writes to Adolph Martin Schlesinger. [View letter]
1821Carl Maria von Weber writes to Johann Friedrich Naue. [View letter]
1822Georg August von Griesinger writes to Karl August Böttiger. [View letter]
1823Johann Gottfried Schicht died.
1824Ludwig Franz Greuhm died.
1825Georg Gerson died.
1826Johann Gottfried Jentzsch died.
1826Carl Maria von Weber writes to Caroline von Weber. [View letter]
1829François-Joseph Gossec died.
1829Helene von Hülsen was born.
1835Adolf von Donndorf was born.
1837Wilhelm Ludwig von Berstett died.
1837Johann Ludwig Klüber died.
1838Joseph Anton Munding died.
1839Ludwig Berger died.
1844Friedrich Töpfer died.
1863Wolf Adolph August Freiherr von Lüttichau died.
1863Tommaso Benedetti died.
1866Johann Michael Wacker died.
1869Max Abraham writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]
1869Rudolf Heinrich Zumsteeg writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]
1870Maria Arkadievna Fürstin Galitzina died.
1872Henry Fothergill Chorley died.
1886Louis Köhler died.
