Events from the year 1817 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VI Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke
Events
Undated
Culture Art Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg completes The Death of Balder as his admission painted for admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The 300th anniversary of the Reformation is commemorated with a medal designed by Salomon Ahron Jacobson.
Births
JanuaryMarch 22 January – Johan Frederik Schlegel, lawyer and civil servant (died 1896) 30 January Magnus Feilberg, bookseller and publisher (died 1900 in Norwau) 22 February – Niels Gade, composer (died 1890)
AprilJune 4 April – P. C. Skovgaard, national romantic landscape painter (died 1875) 5 April Hansine Andræ, feminist (died 1898) 11 May Frederik Hegel, bookseller and publisher (died 1887) 13 June – Knud Graah, industrial pioneer (died 1909).
JulySeptember 7 July Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, lawyer, landowner and politician (died 1880) 20 July – Johan Henrik Nebelong, architect (died 1871)
OctoberDecember 4 October Andreas Frederik Krieger, politician (died 1893) 8 October Ilia Fibiger, writer (born 1867) 26 October Georg Grüner, landowner, politician and co-founder of Landmandsbanken (died 1890) 13 November – Franziska Carlsen, writer and local historian (died 1876) 17 November – Harald Conradsen, sculptor and medalist (died 1905) 8 December Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, politician and landowner (died 1896) 10 December Carl Otto Reventlow, philologist, developed a mnemonic system (died 1873)
Deaths
10 May Georg Haasm engraver /born 1861 in Germany) 6 April – Joachim Castenschiold, military officer (born 1743) 31 August Hans Egede Saabye, priest and missionary (born 1746) 1 September Caspar Peter Bügel, businessman (born 1759 in Hamburg) 18 November Hans Rudolph Saabye, businessman (born 1751) 28 November – Johan Frederik Schultz printer and publisher (born 1756)
Full date missing Johanne Marie Malleville, royal favorite (born 1750) Moses Melchior, businessman (born 1736)
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