1882 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1882 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister  - J. B. S. Estrup

Events

• 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.
• 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.

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dissatisfied students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts founds the Artists' Studio School as a reaction to the outdated teachings at the Academy.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 11 February – Knud V. Engelhardt, industrial designer (died 1931)

AprilJune

• 5 April Karen Callisen, geologist (died 1970)
• 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)

JulySeptember

• 19 September – Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, humorist, writer (died 1949)

OctoberDecember

• 16 November – Kai Nielsen, sculptor (died 1924)

Deaths

• 28 January  - Hans Jørgen Hammer, painter (born 1815)
• 24 August Niels Christian Kierkegaard, craftsman and lithographer (nprm 1906)
• 24 October Margit Brandt, fashion designer (born 1945)
• 4 December Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (born 1802)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christian IX king of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 17 June 2019 . en.
2. Web site: 1882-1899. https://web.archive.org/web/20100614061241/http://www.flsmidth.com/en-US/About+FLSmidth/History/1882-1899. dead. 2010-06-14. FL Smith. 2011-06-03.