1844 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1844 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1844 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VIII
• Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann

Events

• Søren Kierkegaard publishes Philosophical Fragments.

Births

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

Deaths

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