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1829 In Denmark
Events from the year 1829 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick VI * Prime minister – Otto Joachim Events * 7 June – C. F. Hansen's new Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen inaugurated after the previous building was destroyed in the British Bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807. * 19 June – Adam Oehlenschläger is publicly crowned with laurel by the Swedish poet Esaias Tegner in front of the high altar in Lund Cathedral, as the "Scandinavian King of Song.". The event cements his position as the leading proponent of Romanticism in the region and at the same time heralds the emergence the Scandinavismmovement. * 5 November – The College of Advanced Technology (DTU) is inaugurated with Hans Christian Ørsted, who had also been one of the driving forces behind its establishment, as its first principal. Undated Births * 29 January – Ludvig Lorenz, mathematician and physicist (died 1891) * 7 February – Theobald Stein, sculptor (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1901 In Denmark
Events from the year 1901 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Christian IX * Prime minister – Hannibal Sehested (until 24 May), Johan Henrik Deuntzer Events * 3 April – The 1901 Folketing election is held. It was the first use of a secret ballot in Denmark. * 24 June – The Frilandsmuseet open-air museum is inaugurated in its present-day location north of Copenhagen. * 24 July – ''Systemskiftet'' ("the change of system"): with the appointment of the Cabinet of Deuntzer, parliamentarism is instituted in Denmark, and with the exception of the Easter Crisis of 1920 no Danish government since 1901 has been formed against the vote of a majority of the members of the Folketing. * 30 August – A royal decrete opens the King's Gate to Rosenborg Castle Garden, at the corner of Gothersgade and Kronprinsessegade, to the public. * 25 September – The Ny Carlsberg Foundation is established. * 28 November – Øksnehallen opens in the Meatpacking District in Copenhagen. Undat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1758 In Denmark
Events from the year 1758 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick V * Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg Events Undated * The ballet dancers Marie Barch and Carl Vilhelm Barch debut at the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen as the first native ballet dancers. Births * 7 June Peter Mandrup Lem, violinist (died 1828) * 6 November – Andreas Birch, academic, bishop (died 1829) * 16 November – Peter Andreas Heiberg, author (died 1841) Deaths * 13 September Peter Norden Sølling (died 1827) * 30 January – Carl Adolph von Plessen, statesman (born 1678 in Mecklenburg) * 5 November - Hans Egede, missionary (born 1686) References {{DEFAULTSORT:1758 In Denmark 1750s in Denmark Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Birch
Andreas Birch (November 6, 1758 – October 25, 1829) was a professor from Copenhagen.Fr. NielsenBiografii 1. '' Dansk biografisk leksikon'', edited by C.F. Bricka, 2. volume, page 280, Gyldendal, 1887–1905 Birch was sent in 1781–1783 by the king of Denmark, Christian VII, to examine manuscripts in Italy, Germany, and other European countries. Life Birch had a difficult experience at the age of 4 when in one month he lost both of his parents. His uncle, brewer A. T. Gardenholtz, took care of him, however, and by the year 1774, he was a student. Five years later he finished his theological studies in Copenhagen and travelled to Göttingen to continue his theological and philological studies under the guidance of Johann David Michaelis' and Christian Gottlob Heyne. Michaelis, who had big expectations for Birch's scientific abilities, advised him to travel to Italy to study "the hidden and hitherto unused manuscripts of the New Testament." Prime Minister Ove Høegh-Guldberg suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1752 In Denmark
Events from the year 1752 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick V * Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg Events * January The castrum doloris of Louise in Christiansborg Chapel. * 8 July The wedding of Frederick V and Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Undated Births * 4 February Johan Martin Schønheyder, Supreme Court attorney (died 1831) * 12 March – Frederik Christian Winsløw, medal engraver (died 1811) * 31 March – Erich Erichsen, merchant and ship-owner (died (1837) * 6 October – Jens Friedenreich Hage, merchant and landowner (died 1831) * 8 October – Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin, scholar, archivist (died 1829) Deaths * 24 October – Christian Falster, poet and philologist (born 1690) References {{DEFAULTSORT:1752 In Denmark 1750s in Denmark Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin
Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín (8 October 1752 – 4 March 1829) was an Icelandic–Danish-Norwegian scholar, who became the National Archivist of Norway and Denmark and Professor of Antiquities at Østfold University College. In 1786 he travelled to England in order to search for documents relating to medieval Danish-English contacts and Anglo-Saxon manuscrpipts with Viking influence. In 1787 he hired British Museum employee James Matthews to transcribe the sole extant manuscript of the Old English epic poem '' Beowulf'' and made another copy himself. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the prestigious and honorary American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1890. Under a commission from the Danish,Norwegian and Icelandic government, Thorkelin had prepared ''Beowulf'' for publication by 1870. During the Battle of Copenhagen (1807) The Second Battle of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) (16 August – 7 September 1807) was a British bombardment of the Danish cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1747 In Denmark
Events from the year 1747 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick V * Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg Events * 4 September – The coronation of Frederick V of Denmark at Frederiksborg Chapel. Date unknown * Count Adam Gottlob Moltke was made a privy councillor by Frederick V, who gave him the estate of Bregentved. * Skagen's first lighthouse is inaugurated to designs by Philip de Lange. * Frederiksdal House is completed as the earliest example of a maison de plaisance in Denmark. Births * 10 July – Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, electress of Hesse-Kassel (died 1820 in Germany) * 4 August – Olfert Fischer, vice admiral (died 1829) * 4 December – Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann, politician, businessman and patron (died 1831) Deaths References {{DEFAULTSORT:1747 In Denmark 1740s in Denmark Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olfert Fischer
Johan Olfert Fischer (4 August 1747 – 18 February 1829) was a Danish officer in the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy. He commanded the Dano-Norwegian fleet against British forces under Lord Nelson during the Danish defeat at Copenhagen on 2 April 1801. Life and career Johan Olfert Fischer was born in Copenhagen in 1747, the son of the Danish Vice Admiral Olfert Fasvier Fischer whom he followed to a naval career. While still a young man, his rise through the military ranks was set back and almost destroyed in an incident with a prostitute while he was on guard duty on the island of Holmen off Copenhagen. The prostitute compounded Fischer's disgrace by accusing him of violent assault and her charges were believed by a military court: Fischer, then a lieutenant, was punished and demoted back to common seaman for a period of one year. By 1784, however, Fischer had rebuilt his reputation enough to be promoted to captain, and he was dispatched to the West Indies as commander of the warsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1775 In Denmark
Events from the year 1775 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Christian VII * Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg Events * 1 May – The Royal Danish Porcelain Factory is founded by the chemist Frantz Heinrich Müller, who is given a 50-year monopoly to create porcelain in Denmark, and begins operations in a converted post office. Undated * Bygholm Manor is completed near Horsens. * Vincenzo Galeotti succeeds Vincenzo Piatolli as artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. * Nicolai Abildgaard completes '' The Wounded Philoctetes''. Births * 27 March – Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (died 1850) * 2 July Joachim Melchior Magens, colonial administrator and lawyer (died 1845) * 12 August Conrad Malte-Brunm, geographer and journalist (died 1826) * 17 September – Margrethe Schall, dancer (died 1852) * 9 October – Peter Thonning, physician and botanist (died 1848) * 19 October – Kamma Rahbek, salonist and lady of le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamma Rahbek
Karen Margrethe "Kamma" Rahbek, née ''Heger'' (19 October 1775 – 21 January 1829) was a Danish writer, salonist and lady of letters. Biography Karen Margrethe Rahbek was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was the daughter of the official Hans Heger (1747–1819) and Anne Louise Drewsen (1751–1799). She grew up in a wealthy home in Nørregade. She received a broad based education and could speak several languages including German, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Italian. In 1798, she married the writer Knud Lyne Rahbek (1760–1830). Her husband was a writer, poet, literary historian and magazine editor. Her salon at Bakkehuset became a cultural centre and the gathering place for the writers of the Danish Golden age and was considered the salon of the middle class in contrast to the more aristocratic Friederike Brun and Charlotte Schimmelmann. Among her guests were Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, who was married to her sister Christiane Oehlenschläger (1782-1841). Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 In Denmark
Events from the year 1899 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Christian IX * Prime minister – Hugo Egmont Hørring Events Undated Births * 2 March – Harald Agersnap, composer, educator and musician (died 1982) * 10 March – Finn Høffding, composer (died 1997) * 11 March – Frederick IX, King of Denmark (died 1972) * 19 March – Aksel Sandemose, author (died 1965) * 27 July – Carl Johan Hviid, actor (died 1964) Deaths * 17 August – Erik Bøgh, journalist, playwright and songwriter (born 1822) * 21 October – Edvard Jünger, precision mechanic (born 1823) * 18 November – Hans Peter Hansen, xylographer (born 1829) * 29 December Vilhelm Christesen, silver smith (born 1822) References {{DEFAULTSORT:1899 In Denmark 1890s in Denmark Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Peter Hansen
Hans Peter Hansen (20 December 1829 – 18 November 1899) was a Danish xylographer who specialized in portraits. Hansen was born in Copenhagen. He first learned the profession of watchmaking before studying woodcutting under Hans Christian Henneberg, Johann Adolf Kittendorff, and Johan Peter Aagaard. At the same time, he also followed courses at the Academy of Arts of Copenhagen (1843/44). In 1854, he travelled to Germany, first to Dresden and then to Leipzig, where he settled. In 1859, he married Clara Aurelia Sophie Langer (5 August 1830 – 1 July 1913), the daughter of the engraver Georg Gottfried Langer and sister of engraver Karl Hermann Theodor Langer (17 December 1819 – 1895). In 1864, he returned to Copenhagen, where he worked for several illustrated magazines and newspapers, such as ''Illustreret Tidende ''Illustreret Tidende'' was a Danish weekly illustrated magazine published from 1859 to 1924 in Denmark with international news, literature and entertainment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
