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HOW IT WORKS
1872 in Denmark
Summary
Events from the year
1872
in
Denmark
.
←
1871
1870
1869
1872
in
Denmark
→
1873
1874
1875
Decades:
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
See also:
Other events of 1872
List of years in Denmark
Incumbents
edit
Monarch –
Christian IX
[1]
Prime minister –
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg
Events
edit
The destructions caused by the 1872 Baltic Sea flood in the area between
Præstø
and
Faxe
as depicted by
Holger Drachmann
as reporter for
Illustreret Tidende
.
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
central battery ironclad
Odin
is launched from the Naval Dockyard in
Copenhagen
.
[6]
Date unknown
edit
The Book on Adler
, a book on pastor
Adolph Peter Adler
by philosopher
Søren Kierkegaard
, is published posthumously.
Brumleby
, an enclave of
terraced houses
and one of the earliest examples of
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
edit
January–March
edit
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
edit
7 April –
Alhed Larsen
, painter (died
1927
)
8 April –
Laurits Larsen
, Olympic sport shooter, bronze medalist in
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
edit
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
edit
6 October –
Hans Peter Hansen
, journalist and politician (died
1953
)
11 October –
Carl William Hansen
, author,
Luciferian
,
wandering bishop
and
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
edit
January–March
edit
4 March –
Carsten Hauch
, poet (b.
1790
)
6 March -
Alfred Hage
, merchant and landowner (b.
1803
)
April–June
edit
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
edit
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
edit
^
"Christian IX | king of Denmark".
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
17 June
2019
.
^
"DMI's historie: DMI". Archived from the original on 19 June 2013
. Retrieved
18 October
2013
.
^
"Historie".
Krebs' Skole
(in Danish)
. Retrieved
8 January
2023
.
^
"The Danish Elections",
The Times
, 21 September 1872.
^
"The Danish Elections",
The Times
, 28 September 1872.
^
Balsved, Johnny E. "Odin (1874–1912)".
Danish Naval History
. Retrieved
20 August
2010
.
^
"Heritage - Fritz Hansen". Archived from the original on 3 November 2013
. Retrieved
1 November
2013
.
^
"Skolens historie". Archived from the original on 3 November 2013
. Retrieved
1 November
2013
.