1844 in Denmark

Events from the year 1844 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VIII
• Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann

Events

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

Undated

• Søren Kierkegaard publishes Philosophical Fragments.

Culture

;usic

• 11 June – Hans Christian Lumbye's Telegraph Galop premiers in Tivoli's Concert Hall in Copenhagen.

Births

January–March

• 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)

April–June

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

July–September

• 13 July – Laurence Gronlund, lawyer, writer and political activist (died 1899 in the United States)
• 21 August Carl Feilberg, journalist, editor and political commentator (died 1887 in Australia)
• 20 September – Emilie West, educator (died 1907)

October–December

• 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)
• 4 December – Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, soldier, explorer and botanist (died 1903)
• 6 December – Rogert Møller, architect (died 1918)

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)

References