1883 in Denmark

Events from the year 1883 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

July

• 3 July – The temperate reaches 35.0 °C at Flintholm Manor, which was then the highest temerature ever recorded in Denmark.

October

• 11 October The Russian tsar family departs from Copenhagen.

December

• 1 December The first Great Belt ferries, H/F Korsør and H/F Nyborg, goes into service.

Undated

• Emil Christian Hansen from Carlsberg develops a method for propagating pure yeast which revolutionises the brewing industry. The yeast is named Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis after the brewery.
• Harboe's Brewery is founded in Skælskør.
• The Slagelse Hoard is discovered in Slagelse.

Culture

Art

• The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to Thorvald Niss for Winter Scene from Folehaven and Bertha Wegmann for Portrait of the Artist's Sister.

Music

• Danish composer Johan Svendsen is appointed principal conductor of Copenhagen's Royal Theatre Orchestra, despite his lack of experience in the role.
• Danish composer Carl Nielsen, aged 18, visits Copenhagen where he is introduced to Niels Gade. Gade suggests he enrol at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 3 February – Aksel Jørgensen, painter and wood engraver (d. 1957)
• 11 February – Paul von Klenau, composer and conductor (d. 1946)
• 22 February – Olga Svendsen, actor (died 1942)

AprilJune

• 8 April – Thorvald Andersen, architect /died 1935)
• 23 April – Clara Pontoppidan, actress (died 1975)
• 23 May – Vilhelm Hvalsøe, architect (died 1958)

JulySeptember

• 19 August
• Emilius Bangert, composer and organist (d. 1962)
• Helga Ancher, painter (died 1064)
• 23 August , composer (died 1959)
• 25 September Einar Middelboe, footballer (died 1968)

OctoberDecember

• 3 October – Harry August Jansen, entertainer/magician (died 1955 in the United States)
• 8 October – Otto Andrup, museum director (d. 1953)
• 7 November – Johannes Pedersen, scholar (died 1977)
• 2 December – Pola Gauguin, painter and writer (died 1961)

Deaths

AprilJune

• 2 May
• Christian Hansen, architect (b. 1803)
• Steen Andersen Bille, naval officer (born 1797)
• 4 May — Thorald Brendstrup, painter (b. 1812)

JulySeptember

• 14 July Svend Grundtvig, literary historian and ethnologist (born 1824)
• 25 July — Jens Adolf Jerichau, painter (b. 1816)
• 2 September Frederik Storch, painter (born 1805)
• 13 September Frederik Christopher Krohn, medallist and sculptor (born 1806)

OctoberDecember

• 8 October Hans Nielsen Jeppesen, businessman (born 1815)
• 24 October Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff, philologist (born 1842 at sea)
• 30 November Adda Ravnkilde, writer (born 1862)
• 24 December Camillus Nyrop, instrument maker (born 1811)

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