1844 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1844 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Christian VIII^[1]
• Prime minister  - Poul Christian Stemann

Events

• 4 July A National Language Meeting is held at Skamlingsbanken.

Undated

• Søren Kierkegaard publishes Philosophical Fragments.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 12 January – Louis Hasselriis, sculptor (died 1912)
• 13 January Peter Gottfred Ramm, military officer, landowner and company founder (died 1917)
• 1 February – Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes, economist, writer, and editor (died 1892)

AprilJune

• 11 April – Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, politician (died 1917)
• 12 June
  • Klaus Berntsen, politician (died 1927)
  • Oscar Alexander Ræder, writer (died 1877)

JulySeptember

• 20 September Emilie West, educator (died 1907)

OctoberDecember

• 12 Octoeber Carl Wivel, restaurateur (died 1922)
• 9 November Andreas Riis Carstensen, painter (died 1906)
• 1 December – Alexandra of Denmark, queen-empress consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1925 in the United Kingdom)^[2]
• 4 December – Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, soldier and botanist (died 1903)
• 6 December – Rogert Møller, architect (died 1918)

Culture

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• 11 June Hans Christian Lumbye's Telegraph Galop premiers in Tivoli's Concert Hall in Copenhagen.^[3]

Deaths

• 7 March  - Christian Horneman, miniature painter (born 1765)
• 15 March  - Adam August Müller, painter (born 1811)
• 24 March  - Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (born 1770)
• 6 April – Christian Jacob Theophilus de Meza, physician (born 1756)
• 16 December – Johan Ernst Hartmann, organist and composer (born 1770)
• 24 December – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (born 1803)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christian VIII king of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 21 June 2019 . en.
2. Web site: Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII . Westminster Abbey . 7 October 2022 . en.
3. Web site: Telegraph-Galop. Danish. edition-s. 6 May 2024.