1882 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Christian IX[1]
- Prime minister â J. B. S. Estrup
Events
- January
- 2 January â 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 â Hjedding Dairy is established as Denmark's first cooperative dairy.
- April
- 20 April â The Thy Railway between Strier and Thisted is inaugurated.
- May
- 1 May â Helsingør Shipyard is founded by Mads Christian Holm.
- 6 May â The North Sea Fisheries Convention is signed by Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
- November
- 5 November â Carl Jacobsen's sculpture collection, which later forms the basis of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, is opened to the public in his winter garden.[citation needed]
- December
- 16 December â 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dissatisfied students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts founds the Artists' Studio School as a reaction to the outdated teachings at the Academy.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
JanuaryâMarch
- 5 January â Niels Hoegh Bronnum, missionary and physician (died 1966)
- 12 January â Christian Christensen (author), writer (died 1960)
- 11 February â Knud V. Engelhardt, industrial designer (died 1931)
AprilâJune
- 5 April â Karen Callisen, geologist (died 1970)
- 11 April â Ellen Aggerholm, actress (died 1968)
- 24 April â Robert Schmidt, actor (died 1941)
- 25 April â Christian Mortensen, world's oldest man of his day (died 1998)
- 2 May â Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (d. 1960)
- 7 May â Thorvald Niss, painter (died 1905)
- 11 May â Elna Pandurom actress and operetta singer (died 1983)
- 20 May â Sigrid Undset, writer (died 1940 in Norway)
- 5 June â Battling Nelson, boxer (died 1945 in the United States)
- 27 June â Christian Debois, composer (died 1960)
- 26 June â Julie Marstrand, sculptor (died 1943)
JulyâSeptember
- 12 July â Maren Sørensen, Denmark's first female priest (died 1957)
- 17 August â Tom Robinson, swimming coach (died 1958 in the United States)
- 19 September â Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, humorist, writer (died 1949)
- 20 September â Maria Nielsen, historian and educator (died 1931)
OctoberâDecember
- 1 October â Maria Mogensen, curator and egyptologist (died 1932)
- 16 November â Kai Nielsen, sculptor (died 1924)
- 28 December â Lili Elbe, painter (died 1931 in Germany)
Deaths
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JanuaryâMarch
- 9 January â Gotthold Müller, army officer (born 1795)
- 28 January â Hans Jørgen Hammer, painter (born 1815)
AprilâJune
- 21 April â Balthazar Christensen, jurist and politician (born 1802)
- 6 June â Tagea Brandt, philanthropist (born 1948)
JulyâSeptember
- 1 July â Peter Raadsig, painter (born 1806)
- 14 August â Niels Christian Kierkegaard, draftsman and lithographer (born 1906)
OctoberâDecember
- 6 October â Vilhelm Melbye, painter (born 1824)
- 18 October â Albert Heinrich Riise, pharmacist, rum manufacturer (born 1810)
- 23 October â Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, zoologist (born 1816)
- 4 December â Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (born 1802)