1817 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Frederick VI[1]
- Prime minister â Joachim Godske Moltke
Events
Undated
Culture
Art
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg completes The Death of Balder as his admission painted for admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
- The 300th anniversary of the Reformation is commemorated with a medal designed by Salomon Ahron Jacobson.
- Eckersberg's The Death of Balder
- Medal commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Reformation
Births


JanuaryâMarch
- 22 January â Johan Frederik Schlegel, lawyer and civil servant (died 1896)
- 30 January â Magnus Feilberg, bookseller and publisher (died 1900 in Norwau)
- 22 February â Niels Gade, composer (died 1890)
AprilâJune
- 4 April â P. C. Skovgaard, national romantic landscape painter (died 1875)
- 5 Aprilâ Hansine Andræ, feminist (died 1898)
- 11 May â Frederik Hegel, bookseller and publisher (died 1887)
- 13 June â Knud Graah, industrial pioneer (died 1909).[2]
JulyâSeptember
- 7 July â Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, lawyer, landowner and politician (died 1880)
- 20 July â Johan Henrik Nebelong, architect (died 1871)
OctoberâDecember
- 4 October â Andreas Frederik Krieger, politician (died 1893)
- 8 October â Ilia Fibiger, writer (born 1867)
- 26 October â Georg Grüner, landowner, politician and co-founder of Landmandsbanken (died 1890)[3]
- 13 November â Franziska Carlsen, writer and local historian (died 1876)
- 17 November â Harald Conradsen, sculptor and medalist (died 1905)
- 8 December â Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, politician and landowner (died 1896)
- 10 December â Carl Otto Reventlow, philologist, developed a mnemonic system (died 1873)
Deaths

- 10 May â Georg Haasm engraver /born 1861 in Germany)
- 6 April â Joachim Castenschiold, military officer (born 1743)
- 31 August â Hans Egede Saabye, priest and missionary (born 1746)
- 1 September â Caspar Peter Bügel, businessman (born 1759 in Hamburg)
- 18 November â Hans Rudolph Saabye, businessman (born 1751)
- 28 November â Johan Frederik Schultz printer and publisher (born 1756)
Full date missing
- Johanne Marie Malleville, royal favorite (born 1750)
- Moses Melchior, businessman (born 1736)
