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Brisson, Carl b. December 24, 1893 d. September 26, 1958
Danish-American actor, singer and entertainer, born in Copenhagen as Carl Pedersen. He began his career as a boxer and dancer before becoming a star in English and American movies during the 1920s and 1930s, a.o. "The Ring," "The Manxman," both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, "All the King's Horses," "Murder at the Vanities," "Ship Café" and "Two Hearts in Waltz Time." From 1942 a cabaret singer. Father of Fred Brisson. (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Vestre Kirkegard (Western Churchyard), Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: A49
Brorson, Hans Adolph b. June 29, 1694 d. June 3, 1764
Bishop and Writer. Born in Randerup, South Juthlandia, Denmark. Wrote the Hymns "Thy Little Ones, Dear Lord, Are We" and "Behold a Host, Arrayed in White."
Ribe Cathedral, Ribe, Syddanmark, Denmark
Plot: Within the cathedral
Bruhn, Erik b. October 3, 1928 d. April 1, 1986
Ballte Dancer. Trained at the Royal Danish Ballet School from 1937 and joined their company in 1947, promoted to solist in 1949. He stayed closely assoicated with the company but his frequent guesting found him mainly in the USA working with many of the big companies. At the American Ballet Theatre he was a partner of Alicia Markova and Carla Fracci with whom he developed a legendary partnership. Undoubtedly one of the greatest male dancers of the 20th century, superb in his role of Albrecht in...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
Mariebjerg Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: Communal Urn Grave, Section E-M
Bundgaard, Poul Arne b. October 27, 1922 d. June 3, 1998
Actor. He was a versatile actor and tenor singer who appeared in operettas and musicals from his debut in 1947. From 1958 to 1973 he was engaged as an opera-singer by The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen and also as an actor 1969 to 1973 at the same theatre. Besides appearing on different private theatres he was a frequent guest on radio and television, and he performed outside Denmark in England, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Canada, and United States. He played in more than 100 Danish films, both in...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Mariebjerg Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Christian I (Kristiern of Oldenburg) b. 1426 d. May 21, 1481
King of Denmark and Norway 1448-1481. King of Sweden 1457-1464. His parents were Count Dietrich Theodore of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst and Countess Haelwig from Holstein (Schaumburg Dynasty). In 1448 he was elected King of Denmark and Norway upon the death of king Christopher III. One of the reasons he was elected was his willingness to marry the widowed Dowager Queen, 18-year-old Dorothy, originally a Princess of Brandenburg. He became the founder of the royal House of Oldenburg that reigned in...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian II (Kristiern) b. July 1, 1481 d. January 25, 1559
Danish, Norwegian, Swedish Monarch. He reigned as King of Denmark and Norway 1513-1523 and of Sweden 1520-1523. His parents were King John "Hans" and Queen Christina, a Saxon Princess of the Wettin Dynasty. On August 12, 1515 he married Elizabeth (Isabella), a Princess of Spain and a Habsburg. She was the daughter of Philip I of Castille and Queen Joan the Mad, and a sister of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, King of Spain, Austria and the Netherlands. The couple had six children, among whom...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Saint Knud's Church, Odense, Syddanmark, Denmark
Christian III of Denmark-Norway b. August 12, 1503 d. January 1, 1559
King of Denmark and Norway 1534-1559. Born 1503 on Schloss Gottorp in Schleswig as the oldest son of king Frederik I and his 1st wife Anna von Brandenburg, when they were Duke and Duchess of Schleswig- Holstein-Gottorp. In his youth he became influenced by the reformist ideas of Dr. Martin Luther, and later in life he became the "Reformation-king", that swept the Catholic Church out of Denmark and Norway. When his father died, civil war broke out in Denmark 1534-1536. Parts of the Danish Noble...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian IV b. April 12, 1577 d. February 28, 1648
Danish Monarch. Born the son of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway, and Sophia of Mecklenburg at Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, Denmark. In 1588, at the age of 11 he ascended the throne upon the death of his father as Christian IV. He was overseen by a regency until 1596 when he came of age. He married Anna Catherine of Brandenburg in 1597 and they had one son. Christian was recognized as a heavy drinker, gambler, and carouser in the courts of Europe, but also was credited with building of a...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian IX b. April 8, 1818 d. January 29, 1906
Danish Monarch. Born a younger son of Duke Wilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Glücksborg and Princess Louise Caroline of Hessen-Kassel at Gottorp, Schleswig, a maternal line great-grandson of Frederik V of Denmark. As Frederik VII of Denmark had no heir, the great powers of Europe formulated the Treaty of London in 1852 which put the succession of the Danish throne in the hands of House of Glücksborg, a junior branch of the Royal House of Oldenburg. The new heir presumptive, Christian...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian V b. April 15, 1646 d. August 25, 1699
Danish-Norwegian Monarch. He reigned as King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 to 1699. His parents were King Frederik III and Queen Sophie Amalie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg. As Crown Prince, he went on a European tour that brought him to England and France. He spent time at the court of Louis XIV of France, whom he later tried to emulate as King. The 1st King to inherit the throne as an absolute monarch, Charles V was extremely kind and obliging, and thus he was a very popular ruler. He did not...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian VI of Denmark-Norway b. November 30, 1699 d. August 6, 1746
King of Denmark and Norway. His parents were king Frederik IV and queen Louise von Mecklenburg-Güstrow. As crownprince, Christian VI was expected to marry Anna of Russia, the daughter of zar Peter the Great. She was turned down by the Danish court, that did not find her distinguished enough. The king had an unfavorable apperence, and was an awkward, reserved and diffident appearance, and he introduced a very formal, pietistic and solitary lifestyle at his court. Public entertainments were...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian VIII b. September 18, 1786 d. January 20, 1848
Danish Monarch. Born Christian Frederik at Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen, the eldest son of Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway and Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He married his cousin, Charlotte Frederikke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1806; and they had one son. The marriage was dissolved in 1810. In May 1813, he was sent as stattholder, or governor, to Norway. He accepted election as king of Norway in 1814 by the Norwegian independence faction, which refused to recognize the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian X b. September 26, 1870 d. April 20, 1947
Danish Monarch, King of Iceland. Born Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm at Charlottenlund Palace, son of Frederick VIII and Queen Lovisa. In 1889, he was the first heir to the throne to pass the upper secondary school examination. He then trained with the military and ever after saw himself as a soldier. In 1898 he married Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with whom he had two children; Princes Frederik and Knud. Frederik VIII died in 1912 and Christian succeeded. In...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christiansen, Ole Kirk b. April 7, 1891 d. March 11, 1958
Toy Manufacturer. He was a master carpenter, but during the Depression in the 1930s he began making wooden toys which he named LEGO from the Danish words "leg godt". In English it means "play well". During the 1940s he expanded the range of products to include plastic toys, and during the 1950s his son Godtfred designed and developed the interlocking Lego bricks which are now known all over the world. Incidentally, Lego means "I put together" in Latin. Ole did not live to see the opening of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Grene Churchyard, Billund, Syddanmark, Denmark
Christina (Kristina of Saxony) b. December 24, 1461 d. December 8, 1521
Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Originally a Wettin Dynasty (in Britain called Windsor) princess and born in Meissen (Germany), she had an interesting and dutiful descent as the oldest child of Duke Ernest, the one of Frederic II the Gentle's sons who founded the Ernestine line of Electors of Saxony. Her mother was originally a Wittelsbach, Elizabeth of Bavaria. Christina's grandfather died in 1464 and Ernest became Elector. In 1478 he had his daughter married to Scandinavia's Crown Prince...[Read More] (Bio by: J T Demitz)
Saint Knud's Church, Odense, Syddanmark, Denmark
Plot: Chapel of King Hans
Christoffer II of Denmark b. September 29, 1276 d. August 2, 1332
Danish Monarch. He reigned as King of Denmark from 1319 to 1326 and from 1330 to 1332. He was the younger son of king Erik V Klipping and queen Agnes von Brandenburg. He succeeded his elder brother king Erik VI Menved. Christoffer II was a weak king. When he was in need of money he pawned the country bit by bit to the Schauenburg Counts of Holstein. 1326 he was toppled from power by Count Gerhard von Holstein, who installed a child, the young Duke Valdemar of Schleswig on the throne as his...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Sorø klosterkirke (Church of Soroe Cloister), Ringsted, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christopher III (Christoph of Bavaria) b. February 26, 1418 d. January 5, 1448
Scandinavian Monarch. King of the Kalmar Union which also was called Dacia. Of the Wittelsbach Dynasty, he was born at Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, the son of Duke John of the Palatinate-Neumarkt and Catherine Vratislava,a Pomeranian princess (Greif Dynasty), who was an adopted daughter of Margaret the Great, founder of the union. He was chosen by the Danish nobility of the union, which consisted of the three united Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, as the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Dam, Henrik b. February 21, 1896 d. April 17, 1976
Biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient. Born in Copenhagen, he was educated at the Technical University in Copenhagen where he was professor 1941-65. During the 1930s, while working with biochemistry and nutritional physiology he discovered and explored the vitamin K. In 1943 he and the American biochemist Edward Doisy shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine for their work on vitamin K. He lated investigated vitamin E deficiency diseases. (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Bispebjerg Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Dinesen, Thomas Fasti b. August 9, 1892 d. March 10, 1970
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Rungsted, Demark, he served as a Private in the 42nd Infantry Battalion, Canadian Extraordinary Forces. On August 12, 1918 at Parvillers, France, Private Dinesen rushed forward alone against entrenched German troops and put hostile guns out of action. He was credited with killing 12 of the enemy using both bayonet and grenade, while inspiring his comrades at a very critical stage of the action. For gallantry in the face of the enemy, he was awarded...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Hørsholm Cemetery, Horsholm, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Ditlevsen, Tove b. December 14, 1917 d. March 7, 1976
Writer, poet. One of Denmark's most popular and beloved writers in recent times. Having grown up in poor circumstances in a Copenhagen working-class district, she published her first collection of poems in 1939. Two years later her first novel was published. She also wrote short stories, memoirs, and children's books, and for a number of years she was the editor of a column in one of Denmark's most read weeklies. In spite of her fame and popularity she did not feel that she was sufficiently...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Vestre Kirkegard (Western Churchyard), Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

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