1882 in Denmark
Events from the year 1882 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Christian IX
- Prime minister - J. B. S. Estrup
Events
- 2 January - FLSmidth, a supplier of cement production technology, is founded by Frederik Læssøe Smidth as a small "technical bureau" based in a single room of his mother's apartment.
- 10 June Hjedding Dairy is established as Denmark's first cooperative dairy.
- 5 November – Carl Jacobsen's sculpture collection, which later forms the basis of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, is opened to the public in his winter garden.
Undated
- A group of dissatisfied students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts founds the Artists' Studio School as a reaction to the outdated teachings at the Academy.
Births
JanuaryMarch
AprilJune
- 5 April Karen Callisen, geologist
- 25 April – Christian Mortensen, world's oldest man of his day
- 2 May – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector
- 7 May Thorvald Niss, painter
JulySeptember
- 19 September – Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, humorist, writer
OctoberDecember
- 16 November – Kai Nielsen, sculptor
Deaths
- 28 January - Hans Jørgen Hammer, painter
- 14 August Niels Christian Kierkegaard, draftsman and lithographer
- 4 December Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector