1809 in Denmark
Events from the year 1809 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
- Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, since 1805 organist at Church of Our Lady, has his debut at the Royal Danish Theatre with the singspiel Sovedrikken, and from then on his romances become an important part of the Danish music scene.
- Sporgø Lighthouse is constructed by Poul de Løvenørn.
Births
- 7 February – Frederik Paludan-Müller, poet
- 18 March – Frederik Ferdinand Helsted, painter and drawing master
- 28 April - Oscar O'Neill Oxholm, military officer and landowner
- 13 May – Emil Horneman, composer and art and music tradesman
- 9 December Edouard Buntzen, lawuer and politician
Full date missing
- Theodore Cantor, zoologist
Deaths
- 2 April Joachim-Daniel Preisler, actor
- 17 March – Otto Christopher von Munthe af Morgenstierne, civil servant, judge and landowner
- 18 May – Charlotte Elisabeth Henriette Holstein, courtier
- 4 June – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, painter
- 26 July Lars Bache, ferryman and privateer