Danish
Danish may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
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. It was inaugurated in 1671 on a site just outside the
Eastern City Gate
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, as a military cemetery complementing the naval
Holmens Cemetery
Holmen Cemetery (Danish: Holmens Kirkegård) is the oldest cemetery still in use in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was first located next to the naval Church of Holmen in the city centre but relocated to its current site on Dag Hammarskjölds Allé in th ...
which had been inaugurated a few years earlier on a neighbouring site. Later the cemetery was opened to civilian burials as well.
Garrison Cemetery is an independent cemetery, managed by the parochial church council, placed under the army's highest authority.
History
Originally named ''Soldaterkirkegården'' (Soldiers' Cemetery), Garrison Cemetery was founded by a decree from King Frederick III and laid out in 1664 on a site outside the Bastioned Fortifications, next to the main road leading in and out of the
Eastern City Gate
Eastern City Gate of Belgrade оr Istočna Kapija Beograda ( sr, Источна Капија Београда) is a complex of three large residential buildings situated near the E-75 motorway in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, and is among the ...
and opposite the naval
Holmens Cemetery
Holmen Cemetery (Danish: Holmens Kirkegård) is the oldest cemetery still in use in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was first located next to the naval Church of Holmen in the city centre but relocated to its current site on Dag Hammarskjölds Allé in th ...
which was laid out around the same time. Burials began the same year but the site, former marshland, was rather unsuitable for the purpose since ground water levels made it hard to bury the bodies in sufficiently deep grounds. In 1671, some improvements were made when the site was enclosed by pallisades and ditches and the cemetery was officially inaugurated on 13 July 1671.
During the first decades, the cemetery remained relatively little used. In 1706, the Garrison Church was built on
Sankt Annæ Plads
Sankt Annæ Plads (English: St. Ann's Square) is a public square which marks the border between the Nyhavn area and Frederiksstaden neighborhoods of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a long narrow rectangle which extends inland from the waterfron ...
. and in 1723 the ''Soldiers' Cemetery'' received its current name.
In 1711, Copenhagen was struck by an outbreak of plague which killed an estimated 23,000 citizens. In a move to control disease, the authorities provided that all victims of the plague, within 24 hours and without a ceremony, had to be buried at Garrison Cemetery or a Municipal Plague Cemetery which was set up next to it. In 1720, Garrison Cemetery was officially opened to civilian burials.
The cemetery was neglected and gradually fell into disrepair. In 1812 it was renovated and from then on began to attract more prominent citizens.
Garrison Cemetery today
One of the many characteristics of the cemetery, are the many old graves, still owned by families, and war-monuments of fallen in the wars 1848–1850 and 1864.
Interments
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Niels Andersen (1835–1911)
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Erni Arneson
Erni Arneson (12 September 1917 – 8 December 2006) was a Danish film actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1942 and 2006. She was born in Århus, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Filmography
*'' Baby på eventyr'' - 1942
*'' ...
Sten Baadsgaard
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Johannes Bjerg
Johannes Clausen Bjerg (26 January 1886 – 17 February 1955) was a Danish sculptor who worked primarily in the El Greco-style.
Early life
Born in Ødis near Kolding, Bjerg attended the Latin School in Kolding before serving an apprenticeship ...
Nicolai Gottlieb Blædel Nicolai may refer to:
*Nicolai (given name) people with the forename ''Nicolai''
*Nicolai (surname) people with the surname ''Nicolai''
*Nicolai (crater), a crater on the Moon
See also
* Niccolai, a surname
* Nicolae (disambiguation)
* Nicolao
* ...
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Caspar Leuning Borch
Caspar is a masculine given name. It may refer to:
People
* Caspar (magus), a name traditionally given to one of the Three Magi in the Bible who brought the baby Jesus gifts
*Caspar Austa (born 1982), Estonian cyclist
*Caspar Badrutt (1848–1904) ...
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Valborg Borchsenius
Valborg Bodil Emilie Borchsenius née Jørgensen, also Valborg Guldbrandsen, (1872–1949) was a Danish ballet dancer and instructor who performed in Bournonville's productions at the Royal Danish Theatre from 1888. As a soloist she is also remem ...
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Poul Borum
Poul Villiam Borum (15 October 1934 – 10 May 1996) was a Danish writer, poet and critic. He was editor of the influential Danish literary magazine ''Hvedekorn'' from 1968 to his death in 1996. He also initiated the Danish ''writers school'' (Fo ...
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Caspar Johannes Boye
Caspar is a masculine given name. It may refer to:
People
* Caspar (magus), a name traditionally given to one of the Three Magi in the Bible who brought the baby Jesus gifts
*Caspar Austa (born 1982), Estonian cyclist
*Caspar Badrutt (1848–1904) ...
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Else Brems Else Brems (1908–1995) was a Danish contralto opera singer who is remembered in particular for her interpretations of ''Carmen'', a role she performed not only in Denmark but in Vienna, Warsaw, Budapest, Stockholm and London.
Early life and educa ...
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Mogens Brems
Mogens is a Danish masculine given name (specifically Danish shake-up of Magnus), and may refer to:
*Mogens Ballin, Danish artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven
*Mogens Berg (born 1944), Danish former f ...
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Erik Bøgh
Erik Bøgh (17 June 1822 – 17 August 1899) was a Danish journalist, playwright and songwriter. From 1881 to 1899 he worked at the Royal Danish Theatre.
Bøgh authored the one-act musical comedy ''Valbygaasen'' (The Goose of Valby), which wa ...
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Georg Carstensen
Johan Bernhard Georg Carstensen (31 August 1812 – 4 January 1857) was one of the developers of Tivoli Gardens and a Danish army officer. He spent most of his childhood in the Near East. He travelled widely and had a career in the military Royal ...
Inger Christensen
Inger Christensen (16 January 1935 – 2 January 2009) was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor. She is considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation.
Life and work
Born in the town of Vejle, on the eastern J ...
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Walter Christmas
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Ernst Eberlein
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Surname
* Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
* Anton Ernst (1975- ...
Johannes Fibiger
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Paul René Gauguin Paul René Gauguin (27 February 1911 – 14 February 1976) was a French painter, graphical artist, sculptor, book illustrator and scenographer. He was born in Copenhagen, and was a son of Pola Gauguin, and grandson of Paul Gauguin. He is pa ...
Aage Hertel
Aage Hertel (17 October 1873 – 3 January 1944) was a Danish stage, radio and film actor whose career began in the 1890s working as a stagehand and set painter. Hertel appeared in approximately ninety films during the silent film area.
Early li ...
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Gustav Frederik Holm
Gustav Frederik Holm (6 August 1849 – 13 March 1940) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer born in Copenhagen. Career
He was made commander in the navy in 1899, was chief of the hydrographic bureau from 1899 to 1909, and became dire ...
Kræsten Iversen
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Palle Jacobsen Palle Jacobsen (3 December 1940 – 22 January 2009) was a Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and instructor with the Royal Danish Ballet and ballet master at the Pantomime Theatre in the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.Holger Jensen
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Jørn Jeppesen
Jørn Jeppesen (21 April 1919 – 18 January 1964) was a Danish stage and film actor.
Filmography
*'' Genboerne'' - 1939
*'' Når bønder elsker'' - 1942
*'' Natekspressen (P. 903)'' - 1942
*'' Møllen'' - 1943
*'' Guds mærkelige veje'' ...
Anton Eduard Kieldrup
Anton Eduard Kieldrup (16 February 1826, Haderslev – 22 May 1869, Copenhagen) was a Danish landscape painter.
Biography
His father was a sailing master who later became the proprietor of a leasehold estate.
Lili Lani
''Lili'' is a 1953 American film released by MGM. It stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets. The film won the Academy Award for ...
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Buster Larsen
Axel Landing Larsen known as Buster Larsen (1 September 1920 – 18 December 1993), was a Danish stage, film and TV actor. He had his stage debut on Nørrebros Theater in 1932 aged 12, and his film debut in 1933.
Filmography
* ''De blaa dre ...
Otto Liebe
Carl Julius Otto Liebe (24 May 1860 – 21 March 1929) was a Danish jurist who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 30 March 1920 to 5 April 1920. Liebe was appointed prime minister after King Christian X had dismissed Carl Theodor Zahle ...
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Axel Liebmann
Axel Liebmann (3 August 1849 – 23 January 1876) was a Danish composer.
See also
*List of Danish composers
A list of notable Danish composers:
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Nanna Liebmann
Nanna Magdalene Liebmann (September 27, 1849 – May 11, 1935) was a Danish, music educator, music critic, concert promoter and composer. She studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Music with Victor Bendix, Johann Christian Gebauer, J.P.E. Hartm ...
Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen
Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen (11 April 1844 – 14 June 1917) was a Danish politician, minister, army officer, businessman and inventor. He was War Minister in the Deuntzer Cabinet 1901–1905.
Career
He began his military career in 1859 and serv ...
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Rasmus Malling-Hansen
Hans Rasmus Johan Malling-Hansen (5 September 1835 – 27 September 1890) was a Danish inventor, minister and principal at the Royal Institute for the Deaf. He is famous for inventing the first commercially produced typewriter.
Early care ...
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Kristian Mantzius
Kristian Andreas Leopold Mantzius (4 November 1819 – 5 June 1879) was a Danish language, Danish actor.
Early life and education
Kristian Mantzius was born in Viborg, son of General, Gen. Karl Johan Peter Mantzius (1791-1859) and Mette Mari ...
Christian de Meza
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Johan Waldemar Neergaard Johan
* Johan (given name)
* ''Johan'' (film), a 1921 Swedish film directed by Mauritz Stiller
* Johan (band), a Dutch pop-group
** ''Johan'' (album), a 1996 album by the group
* Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
* Jo-Han, a manu ...
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Carl Neumann
Carl Gottfried Neumann (also Karl; 7 May 1832 – 27 March 1925) was a German mathematician.
Biography
Neumann was born in Königsberg, Prussia, as the son of the mineralogist, physicist and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann (1798–1895), who w ...
Jakob Nielsen Jacob or Jakob Nielsen may refer to:
* Jacob Nielsen, Count of Halland (died c. 1309), great grandson of Valdemar II of Denmark
* , Norway (1768-1822)
* Jakob Nielsen (mathematician) (1890–1959), Danish mathematician known for work on automorphi ...
Verner Panton
Verner Panton (13 February 1926 – 5 September 1998) is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especi ...
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Hortense Panum
Hortense Charlotte Anine Panum (1856–1933) was a Danish music historian who taught in the early 20th century at the Danish Folk University and the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Among her publications were the first volume of ''Illustreret Musik ...
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Peter Ludvig Panum
Peter Ludvig Panum (19 December 1820 – 2 May 1885) was a Danish physiologist and pathologist born on the island of Bornholm in Rønne. The Panum Institute in Copenhagen is named in his honor.
Early life and education
Panum was born in Rønn ...
Constantin Philipsen Lauritz Carl Constantin Philipsen (1 December 1859 in Copenhagen; died 23 August 1925 Copenhagen) is credited as one of the founders of the Cinema of Denmark.
Biography
Philipsen, a photographer toured Scandinavian nations from 1898 with his magi ...
Preben Philipsen
Preben Philipsen (18 January 1910 – 21 September 2005) was a Danish film producer. He produced 41 films between 1949 and 1975, and co-founded Constantin Film with Waldfried Barthel ( de) in 1950. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to Con ...
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Axel Preisler
Axel Preisler(12 May 1871 – 25 September 1930) was a Danish architect.
History
Preisler was born in Odense where his father was a merchant. He completed a carpenter's apprenticeship in his home town and studied at Odense Technical College befo ...
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Børge Ralov
Børge is a male Norwegian and Danish given name, a variant of Birger. The Swedish spelling is Börje.
Persons with the given name Børge
*Børge Brende (born 1965), minister in the Norwegian government
*Børge Møller Grimstrup (1906–1972), ...
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Kirsten Ralov
Kirsten Ralov (26 March 1922 – 30 May 1999) was a Danish ballerina.
She was born to Kai and Kaja Gnatt, née Olsen, a family of dancers living in Baden, Austria. Kirsten's mother encouraged her, and her brother Poul, to train as dancers. She e ...
Kirsten Rolffes
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Olaf Rye
Olaf Rye (16 November 1791 – 6 July 1849) was a Denmark–Norway, Norwegian-Danish military officer. He died in battle during the First Schleswig War and is considered to have been a Danish war hero.
Biography
Olaf Rye was born at Bø, Tele ...
August Schiøtt
Heinrich August Georg Schiøtt (17 December 1823 – 25 June 1895) was a Danish portrait painter.
Biography
August Schiøtt was born in Helsingør, Denmark. He was the son of Heinrich Erpecum Schiøtt and Anna Sophie Marie Fleron.
His father w ...
August Saabye
August Vilhelm Saabye (7 August 1823 – 12 November 1916), also known as August Wilhelm Saabye, was a Danish sculptor.
Early life and education
Saabye was born in Skivholme, , Aarhus, the son of vicar Erhard Saabye (1778–1851) and Susa ...
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Hans Nicolai Thestrup
Hans may refer to:
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* Hans (name), a masculine given name
* Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician
** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans
** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...
Emilie Walbom
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Per Wiking
Per is a Latin preposition which means "through" or "for each", as in per capita.
Per or PER may also refer to:
Places
* IOC country code for Peru
* Pér, a village in Hungary
* Chapman code for Perthshire, historic county in Scotland
Math a ...
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Hans Wright
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Early life and education
Wright was born in Helsingør, the son of ship-owner and major Albert Wright and Wi ...
World War II
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, a Danish officer of the British
Royal Army Service Corps
The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and dom ...
. CWGC Casualty Record. Danish-born British Army Brigadier
Percy Hansen
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, a
Victoria Cross
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