1882 in Denmark

Events from the year 1882 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup

Events

January

• 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.
• 10 June Hjedding Dairy is established as Denmark's first cooperative dairy.

April

• 20 April The Thy Railway between Strier and Thisted is inaugurated.

May

• 1 May is founded by Mads Christian Holm.
• 6 May The North Sea Fisheries Convention is signed by Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

November

• 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.

December

• 16 December Kemp & Lauritzen us founded in Copenhagen.

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dissatisfied students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts founds the Artists' Studio School as a reaction to the outdated teachings at the Academy.
• The Society for Denmark's Neutralization is founded.

Culture

Art

• The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to Vilhelm Rosenstand for the painting Outside a Brasserie in Paris. Mother and Son at Café Pousse, Frants Henningsen for A Funeral and Peder Severin Krøyer.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 5 January Niels Hoegh Bronnum, missionary and physician (died 1966)
• 12 January Christian Christensen (author), writer (died 1960)
• 11 February – Knud V. Engelhardt, industrial designer (died 1931)

AprilJune

• 5 April Karen Callisen, geologist (died 1970)
• 11 April Ellen Aggerholm, actress (died 1968)
• 24 April Robert Schmidt, actor (died 1941)
• 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)
• 11 May Elna Pandurom actress and operetta singer (died 1983)
• 20 May Sigrid Undset, writer (died 1940 in Norway)
• 5 June Battling Nelson, boxer (died 1945 in the United States)
• 27 June Christian Debois, composer (died 1960)
• 26 June Julie Marstrand, sculptor (died 1943)

JulySeptember

• 12 July Maren Sørensen, Denmark's first female priest (died 1957)
• 17 August Tom Robinson, swimming coach (died 1958 in the United States)
• 19 September – Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, humorist, writer (died 1949)
• 20 September Maria Nielsen, historian and educator (died 1931)

OctoberDecember

• 1 October Maria Mogensen, curator and egyptologist (died 1932)
• 16 November – Kai Nielsen, sculptor (died 1924)
• 28 December Lili Elbe, painter (died 1931 in Germany)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 9 January Gotthold Müller, army officer (born 1795)
• 28 January – Hans Jørgen Hammer, painter (born 1815)

AprilJune

• 21 April Balthazar Christensen, jurist and politician (norn 1802)
• 6 June Tagea Brandt, philanthropist (born 1948)

JulySeptember

• 1 July Peter Raadsig, painter (born 1806)
• 14 August Niels Christian Kierkegaard, draftsman and lithographer (born 1906)

OctoberDecember

• 6 October Vilhelm Melbye, painter (born 1824)
• 18 October Albert Heinrich Riise, pharmacist, rum manufacturer (born 1810)
• 23 October Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, zoologist (born 1816)
• 4 December Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (born 1802)

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