1872 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1872 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister – Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg

Events

• 1 April – The Danish Meteorological Institute is founded.^[2]
• 3 August – Prince Carl, the future King Haakon VII of Norway, is born to Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Louise.
• 15 August – Krebs School is founded in Copenhagen.^[3]
• 20 September – The 1872 Folketing election is held,^[4] resulting in a victory for the United Left.^[5]
• 12–14 November – The 1872 Baltic Sea storm surge floods large parts of Lolland and Falster. 80 people are killed, 50 ships are wrecked on the east coast of Zealand and other islands, low-lying areas along the Øresund, in Eastern Jutland and on Bornholm are also hard hit.
• 12 December – The
  Odin is launched from the Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen.^[6]

• The Book on Adler, a book on pastor Adolph Peter Adler by philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, is published posthumously.
• social housing, is completed in Copenhagen
  .
• Fritz Hansen, a furniture design company, is founded.^[7]
• Svendborg Gymnasium, one of the largest upper secondary schools in Denmark, is founded as Svendborg Realskole.^[8]

Births

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January–March

• 15 January – Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, arctic explorer, author and ethnologist (died 1907)
• 16 January – Carl Christensen, systematic botanist, later superintendent at the Copenhagen Botanical Museum (died 1942)
• 17 January – Gudmund Schütte, philologist and historian (died 1958)
• 12 February – Oscar Stribolt, stage and film actor during the silent film era (died 1927)
• 6 March – Alfred Hage, businessman, politician and landowner (died 1803)
• 20 March – Karin Michaëlis, journalist and author (died 1950)

April–June

• 7 April – Alhed Larsen, painter (died 1927)
• 8 April –
  team free rifle at the 1912 Summer Olympics (died 1949
  )
• 10 June – Cathrine Horsbøl, furniture designer and carpenter (died 1947)
• 13 June – Sigvart Werner, amateur photographer famous for his artistic landscape photographs (died 1959)

July–September

• 9 July – Ejnar Nielsen, painter and illustrator, central proponent of Symbolist painting (died 1956)
• 27 July – Jens Olsen, clockmaker, locksmith and astro-mechanic, constructor of the World Clock in Copenhagen City Hall (died 1945)
• 3 August –
  Prince Carl, the future King Haakon VII of Norway (died 1957
  )
• 1 September – Morten Pedersen Porsild, botanist active in Greenland (died 1956)
• 7 September – Thyra Manicus-Hansen, ceramist (died 1054)
• 23 September – Valdemar Rørdam, national conservative poet, author of "Denmark in a Thousand Years" (died 1946)

October–December

• 6 October – Hans Peter Hansen, journalist and politician (died 1953)
• 11 October –
  occultist (died 1936
  )
• 12 October – Carl Emil Krarup, telegraph engineer, mainly known for the invention of the Krarup cable, a kind of loaded cable (died 1909)
• 27 October – Karen Hannoverm ceramist (died 1943)
• 18 November – Johannes Giersing, chess master (died 1954)
• 10 December – Helvig Kinch, painter and illustrator (died 1956)
• 27 December – Georg Høeberg, composer and conductor (died 1950)

Deaths

January–March

• 4 March – Carsten Hauch, poet (b. 1790)
• 6 March -
  Alfred Hage, merchant and landowner (b. 1803
  )

• 10 April – Christine Løvmand, artist specializing in painting flowers and still lifes (b. 1803)
• 17 June – Mathilde Fibiger, feminist, novelist and telegraphist (b. 1830)

July–September

• 16 August – Andreas Flinch, goldsmith, wood-engraver and lithographer (b. 1813)
• 2 September – N. F. S. Grundtvig, pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and politician (b. 1783)
• 3 September – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist (b. 1816)

References