1888 in Denmark

Events from the year 1888 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

Undated

• The Nordic Exhibition of 1888 took place in Copenhagen.

Culture

Art

• The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to Carl Thomsen for the painting Middag i en Præstegaard efter en Bispevisitats.

Music

• 5 February First public performance of Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 1 in the smaller hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion in Copenhagen.

Theatre, opera and ballet

• 19 November C. F. E. Horneman's opera Aladin premiers at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 6 March Hans Christian Hagedorn, pharmachologist and Novo Nordisk co-founder (died 1971)
• 9 March Ernestine Nyrop, textile artist (died 1975)
• 15 March – Sophus Nielsen, footballer (died 1963)
• 30 March – Einar Utzon-Frank, sculptor (died 1955)

AprilJune

• 26 April – Olaf Henriksen, Major League baseball player (died 1962)

JulySeptember

• 15 July – Svend Bille, actor (died 1973)
• 28 July – Adam Fischer, sculptor (died 1968)
• 12 August
• Prince Axel of Denmark (died 1964)
• John Olsen, film producer (died 1959)
• 9 September Frederik Zeuthen, economist (died 1959)

OctoberDecember

• 13 December A. J. Iversen, cabinetmaker and furniture designer (died 1979)
• 15 December – Kaare Klint, architect (died 1954)
• 16 December – Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Olympic athlete (died 1965)

Deaths

• 29 February – Wilhelm Sponneck, nobleman and politician, Danish finance minister (born 1815)
• 12 March Frederik Wilhelm Dannemand, military officer and landowner (born 1813)
• 8 August – Jørgen Roed, painter (born 1808)
• 14 August – Carl Christian Hall, politician, Danish prime minister (born 1812)

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