1817 in Denmark

Events from the year 1817 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI
• Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke

Events

Undated

Culture

Art

• Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg completes The Death of Balder as his admission painted for admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
• The 300th anniversary of the Reformation is commemorated with a medal designed by Salomon Ahron Jacobson.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 22 January – Johan Frederik Schlegel, lawyer and civil servant (died 1896)
• 30 January Magnus Feilberg, bookseller and publisher (died 1900 in Norwau)
• 22 February – Niels Gade, composer (died 1890)

AprilJune

• 4 April – P. C. Skovgaard, national romantic landscape painter (died 1875)
• 5 April Hansine Andræ, feminist (died 1898)
• 11 May Frederik Hegel, bookseller and publisher (died 1887)
• 13 June – Knud Graah, industrial pioneer (died 1909).

JulySeptember

• 7 July Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, lawyer, landowner and politician (died 1880)
• 20 July – Johan Henrik Nebelong, architect (died 1871)

OctoberDecember

• 4 October Andreas Frederik Krieger, politician (died 1893)
• 8 October Ilia Fibiger, writer (born 1867)
• 26 October Georg Grüner, landowner, politician and co-founder of Landmandsbanken (died 1890)
• 13 November – Franziska Carlsen, writer and local historian (died 1876)
• 17 November – Harald Conradsen, sculptor and medalist (died 1905)
• 8 December Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, politician and landowner (died 1896)
• 10 December Carl Otto Reventlow, philologist, developed a mnemonic system (died 1873)

Deaths

• 10 May Georg Haasm engraver /born 1861 in Germany)
• 6 April – Joachim Castenschiold, military officer (born 1743)
• 31 August Hans Egede Saabye, priest and missionary (born 1746)
• 1 September Caspar Peter Bügel, businessman (born 1759 in Hamburg)
• 18 November Hans Rudolph Saabye, businessman (born 1751)
• 28 November – Johan Frederik Schultz printer and publisher (born 1756)

Full date missing

• Johanne Marie Malleville, royal favorite (born 1750)
• Moses Melchior, businessman (born 1736)

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