Events from the year 1838 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Frederick VI
Prime minister – Otto Joachim
Events
17 September – After almost four decades in Rome, Bertel Thorvaldsen, accompanied by his art collections and most of his own works, returns to Copenhagen.
Undated
Births
JanuaryMarch
1 February Christian Blache, painter (died 1920) 6 February – Johan Peter Christian Hansen, businessman (died 1913) 22 February – Johan Peter Andreas Anker, military officer (died 1876)
AprilJune
19 June – Julius Lange, art historian (died 1896)
JulySeptember
10 July Philip Schou, businessman (died 1922) 16 July Ejler Andreas Jorgensen, painter (died 1876) 31 July – Vilhelm Rosenstand, artist (died 1915)
Deaths
13 March – Poul Martin Møller, academic, writer, and poet (born 1794) 20 April – Marie Kofoed, businessperson and philanthropist (born 1760) 31 October – Poul Reichhardt, actor (born 1913)