1638_in_Denmark
1638 in Denmark
List of events
Events from the year 1638 in Denmark.
- Monarch – Christian IV[1]
- Sorø is incorporated as a market town.[2]
- Peder Winstrup is installed as Bishop of Lund.
- Jesper Brochmand is installed as Bishop of Zealand.
Art
- Henrik Werner completes the Orebygård altarpiece.
- Abraham Wuchters moves to Denmark and created a portrait of Christian IV.[3]
- Orebygård altarpiece
- Abraham Wuchters' 1638 portrait of Christian IV.
- Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Problemata duo Geometrica
- Jesper Brochmand, Päpstischer Warheit (1638)
- Jesper Brochmand, Sabbati sanctificatio aller Gudelig Betaenkning over alle Evangelier og Epistler paa Sondage og alle hellige Dage
- 1 January – Nicolas Steno, scientist (died 1686)
- 25 February – Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, governor of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies (died 1683)
- 20 July – Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, statesman (died 1704).[4]
- 23 December – Birgitte Skeel, landowner (died 1699)[5]
Full date missing
- Brita Scheel, noblewoman (died 1699)
- Hans Poulsen Resen, clergy (born 1561)
- "Christian IV: Scandinavian king". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- "Abraham Wuchters" (in Danish). Gyldendal. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- "Birgitte Skeel". Kulturstyrelsen (in Danish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.