1882 in Denmark
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Events from the year 1882 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian IX[1]
- Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup
Events
- January
- 2 January – FLSmidth, a supplier of cement production technology, is founded by Frederik Læssøe Smidth as a small "technical bureau" based in a single room of his mother's apartment.[2]
- 10 June – Hjedding Dairy is established as Denmark's first cooperative dairy.
- April
- 20 April – The Thy Railway between Strier and Thisted is inaugurated.
- May
- 1 May – Helsingør Shipyard is founded by Mads Christian Holm.
- 6 May – The North Sea Fisheries Convention is signed by Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
- November
- 5 November – Carl Jacobsen's sculpture collection, which later forms the basis of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, is opened to the public in his winter garden.
- December
- 16 December – Kemp & Lauritzen us founded in Copenhagen.
Undated
- A group of dissatisfied students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts founds the Artists' Studio School as a reaction to the outdated teachings at the Academy.
- The Society for Denmark's Neutralization is founded.
Culture
Art
- The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to Vilhelm Rosenstand for the painting Outside a Brasserie in Paris. Mother and Son at Café Pousse, Frants Henningsen for A Funeral and Peder Severin Krøyer.
Births
January–March
- 5 January – Niels Hoegh Bronnum, missionary and physician (died 1966)
- 12 January – Christian Christensen (author), writer (died 1960)
- 11 February – Knud V. Engelhardt, industrial designer (died 1931)
April–June
- 5 April – Karen Callisen, geologist (died 1970)
- 11 April – Ellen Aggerholm, actress (died 1968)
- 24 April – Robert Schmidt, actor (died 1941)
- 25 April – Christian Mortensen, world's oldest man of his day (died 1998)
- 2 May – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (d. 1960)
- 7 May – Thorvald Niss, painter (died 1905)
- 11 May – Elna Pandurom actress and operetta singer (died 1983)
- 20 May – Sigrid Undset, writer (died 1940 in Norway)
- 5 June – Battling Nelson, boxer (died 1945 in the United States)
- 27 June – Christian Debois, composer (died 1960)
- 26 June – Julie Marstrand, sculptor (died 1943)
July–September
- 12 July – Maren Sørensen, Denmark's first female priest (died 1957)
- 17 August – Tom Robinson, swimming coach (died 1958 in the United States)
- 19 September – Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, humorist, writer (died 1949)
- 20 September – Maria Nielsen, historian and educator (died 1931)
October–December
- 1 October – Maria Mogensen, curator and egyptologist (died 1932)
- 16 November – Kai Nielsen, sculptor (died 1924)
- 28 December – Lili Elbe, painter (died 1931 in Germany)
Deaths
January–March
- 9 January – Gotthold Müller, army officer (born 1795)
- 28 January – Hans Jørgen Hammer, painter (born 1815)
April–June
- 21 April – Balthazar Christensen, jurist and politician (norn 1802)
- 6 June – Tagea Brandt, philanthropist (born 1948)
July–September
- 1 July – Peter Raadsig, painter (born 1806)
- 14 August – Niels Christian Kierkegaard, draftsman and lithographer (born 1906)
October–December
- 6 October – Vilhelm Melbye, painter (born 1824)
- 18 October – Albert Heinrich Riise, pharmacist, rum manufacturer (born 1810)
- 23 October – Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, zoologist (born 1816)
- 4 December – Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (born 1802)
References
- ^ "Christian IX | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ "1882-1899". FL Smith. Archived from the original on 14 June 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2011.