1844 in Denmark

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Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1844 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1844 in Denmark.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch – Christian VIII^[1]
• Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann

Events[]

• Søren Kierkegaard publishes Philosophical Fragments.

Undated[]

Births[]

• 12 January - Louis Hasselriis, sculptor (died 1912)
• 1 February - Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes, economist, writer, and editor (died 1892)
• 11 April - Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, politician (died 1917)
• 12 June
  • Klaus Berntsen, politician (died 1927)
  • Oscar Alexander Ræder, writer (died 1877)
• 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, queen-empress consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1925)
• 4 December - Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, soldier and botanist (died 1903)

Deaths[]

• 7 March – Christian Horneman, miniature painter (born 1765)
• 15 March – Adam August Müller, painter (born 1811)
• 24 March – Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (born 1770)
• 16 December - Johan Ernst Hartmann, organist and composer (born 1770)
• 24 December - Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (born 1803)

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