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70 unusual facts about Copenhagen


2011 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The Men's Individual Road Race of the 2011 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 25 September 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

2011 UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial

The Men's time trial of the 2011 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 21 September 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Aaron Margalita

He is said to have become a Lutheran at Hamburg around 1712, but to have later been imprisoned in Copenhagen for wanting to return to Judaism.

Assia Zlatkowa

During her first piano recital in the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, August 1975 she swept the classical music world of Denmark off her feet, which resulted in several invitations as a soloist for the most prominent of Danish Symphony Orchestras.

Astronomische Gesellschaft

In 1882, the Astronomische Gesellschaft founded the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams at Kiel, where it remained until moving to the Østervold Observatory at Copenhagen, Denmark, to be operated there by the Copenhagen University Observatory.

Axelborg

Axelborg is a building on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen, Denmark, home to the Danish Agriculture and Food Council.

Balzer Jacobsen

This period of Faroese history is known in Faroese as Gablatíðin, and was difficult due to the trade monopoly and wishes from Copenhagen about the crown's absolute control of the fiefdom.

Bergen Prizes

However, the subject of indemnity was broached by Jones, who turned up in person at Copenhagen.

Bispegården, Copenhagen

Bispetorv, the small square next to it, is named after the building.

Carlo Mazzone-Clementi

Mazzone-Clementi moved to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1984 and founded another theater school there, but returned to California in 1994 and continued teaching until shortly before his death on 5 November 2000 in San Francisco.

Charles Conrad Abbott

He was a corresponding member of the Boston Society of Natural History, a member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of the North in Copenhagen.

Christoffer Gabel

He spent his remaining time in Copenhagen, and died on October 13, 1673, and was buried in St. Peter's Church.

CityCirkel

CityCirkel was a one-way circular bus route operated by electrical buses in Copenhagen, Denmark from June 12, 2009 to October 24, 2010.

Copenhagen School

In at least four different scientific disciplines a theoretical approach originating in Copenhagen has been so influential that they have been dubbed "the Copenhagen School"

Daniel Mackinnon

In 1807 the battalion to which he belonged sailed for Copenhagen, and after the capture of that city it returned to England.

Dorel Golan

She appeared successfully in recitals at the Salle Cortot in Paris, at the Tivoli Hall in Copenhagen,at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, were she recorded her first CD.She also played in many other important centers.

Edward Riou

Riou worked closely with Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson during the approach to the Battle of Copenhagen, earning Nelson's trust and admiration.

Européennes

The song is about the lives of the tititular "European girls", with the band singing about their desire to travel to Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Capri, Saint-Tropez and other locations, all the while leading a carefree lifestyle.

Farman F.120

The Jabiru was capable of carrying up to 9 passengers, and served on Farman airline's route Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam, but also with Danish Air Lines between Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

Gadodiamide

However, a recent report by the Danish Medicines Agency stated that there were 35 cases of NSF reported after use of Omniscan and that 33 of these had been reported from a single centre in Copenhagen.

Garrison Church, Copenhagen

A military church was built at Kastellet in 1670 but its modest size only allowed it to serve the personnel at the fortress.

Gemini Residence

It is located at the end of Bryggebroen, connecting Amager-side Islands Brygge to Zealand-side Vesterbro across the harbour, and close to the southern end of Havneparken.

Granard

This had been due to the financial support of James Dungan, an Irish merchant then residing in Copenhagen, and a native of Granard, who had heard of similar events being organised in Scotland.

H. C. Andersens Boulevard

From Jarmers Plads traffic continues along Gyldenløvegade which on the far side of The Lakes splits into Aaboulevard and Rosenørns Allé.

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

Harry Newbould

After leaving City he had a brief spell as a coach at Copenhagen's Akademisk Boldklub before becoming secretary of the Players' Union in 1913, a position he held until his death in 1928.

Holmen, Copenhagen

The 32 former Gunboat Sheds today house small business mainly in the creative sector, such advertising agencies, media houses and architectural practises.

Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001

Gary O'Shaughnessy represented Ireland in the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen after winning the national final selection.

Ismail Abdul Rahman

Razak was provided with a plane by the Canadian government that took him to Copenhagen, from where he took a commercial flight to Kuala Lumpur.

Iver Rosenkrantz

In 1691 he came to the newly created Knight Academy in Copenhagen.

J. A. Henckels

J.A. Henckels opened the first trading outlet in 1818 in Berlin, opening a shop in New York in 1883 and followed a year later by Vienna and in 1897 by Copenhagen and Rotterdam.

James Brisbane

Although never engaged in any major actions, Brisbane served under both Lord Howe and Horatio Nelson and performed important work at the Cape of Good Hope, prior to the Battle of Copenhagen and in the Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814.

James Whitley Deans Dundas

He took part in the Napoleonic Wars, first as a junior officer when he took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in Autumn 1799 and later as a commander when he was in action at Copenhagen Dockyard shortly after the capture of that City in August 1807.

Jeanne Paulson

Recently, she appeared in Death of a Salesman at Geva Theatre; other regional credits include work at Arizona Theatre Company (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Copenhagen), La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, and at the South Coast Repertory where she received a L.A. Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Rose in Holy Days.

Jens Oliver Lisberg

While a law student in Copenhagen, he devised the flag in 1919 with two other Faroese students, Janus Øssursson from Tórshavn and Paul Dahl from Vágur.

Johan Friis

As the first chancellor of the reconstructed university of Copenhagen, Friis took the keenest interest in spiritual and scientific matters, and was the first donor of a legacy to the institution.

Johan Nicolai Madvig

He was educated at the classical school of Frederiksborg and the University of Copenhagen.

John Hahn-Petersen

John Hahn-Petersen (November 4, 1930 Copenhagen – January 4, 2006) was a Danish theatre, TV and movie actor.

Joy Simonson

She also attended the U.N. women's conferences in Copenhagen in 1980 and Nairobi in 1985.

Kjøbenhavns Skøjteløberforening

From 1870 to 1960 the club was based on the Copenhagen lakes, first at Sortedams Sø, and from 1886 at Peblinge Sø.

Klampenborgbanen

Klampenborgbanen is the shortest (13.3 km from København H) of six radial S-train lines in Copenhagen.

Køge Bugt-banen

Køge Bugt-banen is one of six radial S-train lines in Copenhagen; it connects the city center to communities along Køge Bugt (the bay of Køge) and terminates in the city of Køge about 35 km southwest of central Copenhagen.

Lewis Gerhardt Goldsmith

The planned route would take them along the coast of North America to Newfoundland, then to England, to a restorative stopover with family in Copenhagen, then through Gibraltar to the Mediterranean, through the new Suez Canal and on to the Indian Ocean.

Livic

Similar spin-offs have included 'livek', prepared for the trip to Budapest in 2007 and 'livøc' for the 2008 trip to Copenhagen.

Lorry, Frederiksberg

Lorry is a former entertainment venue in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Metta von Oberg

Even after 1783, when Augusta Louise moved to Copenhagen and married the Danish Minister of State Peter Andreas Bernstorff, she remained at the side of her best friend.

MIT Senseable City Lab

Among the Lab's partners are a group of corporations, including AT&T, General Electric, Audi, ENEL, SNCF as well as cities such as Copenhagen, London, Singapore, Seattle, and Florence.

Mongezi Feza

A member of The Blue Notes, he left South Africa in 1964 and settled in Europe, living in London and Copenhagen.

Niels Simonsen Glostrup

At the University of Copenhagen, he appears in 1604 as a student and in 1608 as a responder in a disputation, which was held by Professor Hans Jensen Alanus at the University.

In 1612 he took his Master's Degree in Copenhagen and, in the same year, became a parish pastor in Køge, Denmark.

Nordisk Copyright Bureau

NCB is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is owned by the collecting societies in the Nordic countries; KODA (DK), STEF, STIM (SE), Teosto (FI) and TONO (NO).

Oliver H. Lowry

While at Harvard, Hastings was able to arrange for Lowry to work for five months at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he worked with Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang.

Olsen Brothers

Both Jørgen and Niels Olsen participated in the musical Hair in the Cirkusbygningen in Copenhagen March 1971, and went on tour afterwards through Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Oryn the Rebel

His sister Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, author of Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak, was selected to participate in the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow retreat hosted by the World Economic Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2006.

Paul Henri Mallet

In 1752 he was appointed professor of belles lettres to the academy at Copenhagen.

Peter Claussen

Peter Claussen (1804-1855) was a Danish natural history collector born in Copenhagen.

Peter Gantzler

Peter Gantzler originally studied Danish at the University of Copenhagen, but changed to the Danish National School of Theatre where he got his degree in 1990.

Regional rail

There are of course trains that are something in between regional and inter-city, like the Oresundtrain (between Copenhagen and 3 cities in Sweden over 3 hours away) with stopping pattern like a regional train and pass prices attracting work commuters.

Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau

After completing his apprenticeship, he worked for a brief time with Frobenius Orgelbyggeri in Denmark, where he took part in building the great organ of the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.

Sandy Denny and the Strawbs

The album is a reworking of tapes recorded by the band in Copenhagen in the July 1967.

Serenata in vano

The serende was first performed in Copenhagen on 13 April 1915 in the smaller hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion.

Shahzada Kamran Durrani

He was father of Shahzada Rehmatullah Khan Saddozai Durrani who is father of Sardar Ahmad Khan (Sadozai) Durrani Chairman Sadozai Qaumi Welfare Organization settled in Copenhagen Denmark now living in Quetta, Noor Ullah Khan Durrani settled in Harran Norway, Habibullah Khan Sadozai settled in United Kingdom and others four more sons etc.

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet

He rebuilt the pier at Ilfracombe and established better arrangements for English fishermen in Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck and Copenhagen.

Stan Hauser

In 1914 he was capped twice by England at amateur level, playing in an 8–1 victory in Brussels against the Belgium national team and a 3–0 defeat to the Denmark national side in Copenhagen.

Storyville Records

Storyville Records was founded in 1950 by Karl Emil Knudsen, a jazz record collector, then working for the Copenhagen telephone company.

Sveinn Björnsson

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, he was a member of the Althing in 1914–1916 and 1920, and after Iceland's independence from Denmark in 1918 he acted as minister to Denmark during 1920–1924 and 1926–1940.

Volvo B59

The first Volvo B59 was delivered to the Københavns Sporveje (The City Transport Authority in Copenhagen, Denmark) in 1970, and was fitted with a bodywork built by Aabenraa Karrosserifabrik, based in Aabenraa.

William Domett

At the Battle of Copenhagen, Domett disagreed with Parker's tactical plan and persuaded him to change it, resulting in the attack by Nelson at which the Danish fleet was destroyed.

World Assembly of Youth

The WAY headquarters has moved throughout the years to various bases including Brussels, Paris, London and Copenhagen.

Xie Zhenhua

He has been the lead negotiator for the People's Republic of China in the last three United Nations Climate Change Conferences held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Cancun, Mexico, and Durban, South Africa.


Affluenza

To highlight the spread of affluenza in societies with varied levels of inequality, James interviewed people in several cities including Sydney, Singapore, Auckland, Moscow, Shanghai, Copenhagen and New York.

Among the Vultures

The tour continued to be sold out through Scandinavia with dates in Copenhagen, Denmark, Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland ending at the Helsinki Ice Hall (Venue Capacity of 8200) in Helsinki, Finland.

Anders Hans Karlsson

He also act as the Head of the Meat Science Research Section, which is a part of the Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Life Sciences in Copenhagen (Frederiksberg C), Denmark.

Auguste of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

On 15 June 1651, at Copenhagen, she married her first cousin Ernest Günther (14 October 1609 – 18 January 1689), son of Duke Alexander of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and his wife Countess Dorothea of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Auseklis Limbazi Theatre

Production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Play Strindberg went to Belgium, Estonia and Lithuania, Sławomir Mrożek's At Sea travelled to Denmark, Iceland and Lithuania, Inga Abele's Dzelzzāle (Iron Weed) had its premiere in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ben Roy Mottelson

He moved to Institute for Theoretical Physics (later the Niels Bohr Institute) in Copenhagen on the Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard, and remained in Denmark, becoming a professor at the newly formed Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita) in 1957.

Carlos Alexander

Alexander has sung with companies in Buenos Aires, Vienna, Brussels, Canada, Copenhagen, Paris, Athens, Bayreuth (Beckmesser in Wieland Wagner's Die Meistersinger, 1963), Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Florence, Mexico City, Basel, Geneva, Zurich, Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Hartford, etc.

Christof Marselis

The exact extent of his contributions remain uncertain but he worked on such buildings as the Garrison Church (1703–06), the Stable Master's House (1703–05) and Frederiksberg Palace in Copenhagen.

Clarence Raybould

They flew British European Airways to Copenhagen, then a Finnish flight to Helsinki, followed by another Finnish flight to Moscow.

Claudemir de Souza

In Copenhagen's next UEFA Champions League campaign, in the 2013-14 season, Claudemir scored a late goal in the 3-1 loss against Galatasaray at Türk Telekom Arena on 23 October 2013.

Copenhagen Air Taxi

Copenhagen Air Taxi is an aviation company based in Roskilde, Denmark.

Copenhagen interpretation

The Copenhagen interpretation is an attempt to explain the mathematical formulations of quantum mechanics and the corresponding experimental results.

Count Christian of Rosenborg

Countess Feodora Mathilde Helena af Rosenborg (born 27 February 1975 at Frederikssund), married firstly on 31 July 2004 at Holmens Kirke, Copenhagen, Eric Hervé Patrice Patte (born 20 August 1976 at Pont-à-Mousson, France), and divorced in 2005, without issue.

Dai Yun

At the 1999 World Championships in Copenhagen she reached the final only to lose the closest of matches to Denmark's Camilla Martin.

Daniel Heløy Davidsen

Daniel Heløy Davidsen (born 1978 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish/Norwegian guitarist, born in Denmark to Norwegian parents, known for his participation in bands like Czesław Śpiewa and JazzKamikaze and many record appearances as studio musician like with Selena Gomez and Kylie Minogue.

Denver Oldham

At the age of 24, Oldham went on his first European concert tour, which spanned Copenhagen, Zurich, Oslo, The Hague, and Vienna.

Francis Dickoh

Francis Dickoh (born 13 December 1982 in Copenhagen) is a Ghanaian/Danish footballer, currently playing for FCM, a club he signed for on the 30th of January, 2014.

Gable stone

They are a particularly charming feature of the urban fabric of Amsterdam, and are also found in cities such as Brussels, Lille and Copenhagen.

Guðrið Helmsdal

She and her two sisters and their parents first lived in Tårnby, Amager and later in Copenhagen.

Hesychius of Alexandria

A modern edition has been published under the auspices of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, begun by Kurt Latte (vol. 1 published in 1953, vol. 2 posthumously in 1966) and completed by Peter Allan Hansen and Ian C. Cunningham (vol. 3, 2005, vol. 4, 2009).

Jan Mohr

Together with Hans Eiberg he established Copenhagen Family Bank in 1972, a store of DNA samples, comprising about 1000 large Danish families as a basis for a Resource Center for Linkage analysis, RC-LINK, to study also familial diseases such as cystic fibrosis and Batten disease, both of which are among diseases mapped at the center.

Johan Nicolai Madvig

In 1828 he became reader, and in 1829 professor of Latin language and literature at Copenhagen, and in 1832 was appointed university librarian.

José Quiroga

Dr. Quiroga serves on the Executive Committee and is Vice-President of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kåre Berven Fjeldsaa

He received a scholarship in 1956 for study at The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory in Copenhagen.

Kayak roll

In 1605, some Inuit men and their kayaks were brought back to Europe by a Danish expedition; they gave a demonstration of rolling and racing against rowing boats in Copenhagen harbour, watched by King Christian IV.

Ken Friedman

From 1994 to 2009, Friedman was professor in the Department of Culture, Communication, and Language at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, as well as at the Design Research Center at The Danish Design School in Copenhagen from 2003 to 2009.

Kenneth Carlsen

In Copenhagen with Frederik Fetterlein in 1997 (lost to Andrei Olhovskiy/Brett Steven), Tashkent, Uzbekistan with Sjeng Schalken in 1998 (lost to Stefano Pescosolido/Laurence Tieleman), and Beijing with Michael Berrer in 2006 (lost to Mario Ančić/Mahesh Bhupathi).

Kira Eggers

Kira Eggers (born November 29, 1974, Kvistgaard) is a model from Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kirsten Thorup

Kirsten Thorup, a Danish author, was born in Funen, Denmark, in 1942 and now lives in Copenhagen.

Mikhail Shultz

M. Shultz was a descendant of the German sculptor, the Danish royal medallist Anton Schultz (Anton Schultz — Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Hamburg, Denmark, XVII–XVIII cc.) who carried out orders the Russian Court as early as Copenhagen, and arrived at the service in Russia with Peter the Great.

Mohammad Bagheri Motamed

He won the gold medal in the featherweight division (-68 kg) at the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Olympic Silver Medal at the London 2012 Olympics.

Niels Simonsen Glostrup

Niels Glostrup was born in a small town named Glostrup near Copenhagen, where his father, Simon Jensen, was a priest.

NordBEC

The first nordBEC was held in Copenhagen, from 27–31 March 2010, and the second one in Trondheim, from 16–20 April 2011

Nørreport Station

Located in fare zone 1, it serves lines M1 and M2 of the Metro, most S-train lines, regional trains to Helsingør, intercity trains to Esbjerg and international trains to Malmö and Gothenburg, Sweden, and trains to other places, but not express trains.

Ong Keng Sen

He is particularly well known for his performance at the Perth Festival of King Lear in 1997, his Desdemona at the Adelaide Festival, Australia in 2000, and his Search:Hamlet at the Kronbourg Castle in Elsinore and Copenhagen.

Pan Club Copenhagen

Britney Spears visited the club in 2004 the night before her concert in Copenhagen.

Rasmus Kofoed

On his return to Copenhagen, he served as head chef at various top restaurants before opening his first restaurant, Geranium (one Michelin Star Awarded in 2012, two in 2013) in Rosenborg Gardens, together with Søren Ledet.

Robin Bullough

Bullough travelled widely to facilitate collaboration, with regular visiting appointments and research visits to Copenhagen, Jyväskylä, Los Alamos, DTH Lyngby in Denmark, and Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Søren Kristian Toubro

As an employee of F. L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen, he came to India in 1934 to erect and commission the equipment supplied to the Madukkarai Cement Works (near Coimbatore) and the Rohri Cement Factory (near the Sukkur Barrage in Sindh).

Søren Ulrik Thomsen

He moved with his family to Copenhagen at sixteen and enrolled in secondary school at Rysensteen and, after being expelled, at Det Frie Gymnasium, where he completed his upper secondary education, making him eligible for university studies.

Sven Risom

Their son, Jens Risom (b. Copenhagen, May 8, 1916) would later emigrate to the United States and become a renowned furniture designer.

Terribly Happy

The film is about a policeman, Robert Hansen, from Copenhagen who makes a mistake, is sent for therapy, and then is assigned to a small town in South Jutland.

Thomas Altheimer

In a plea to the Copenhagen City Court, he refers the plaintiff to publisher Gyldendal and author Claus Beck-Nielsen for payment as the lawful owners of the copyright to his former identity.

Vadim Kolganov

In May 2008 he completed his certification in Russian Kettlebell Systems (R.K.C) in Copenhagen, Denmark under the tuition of the world famous Russian Instructor Pavel Tsatsouline.

Valdemar Ingemann

Valdemar Ingemann was born in Copenhagen, the son of merchant and perfume manufacturer Søren Edvard Joachim Ingemann, a nephew of the author Bernhard Severin Ingemann, and Mariane Aurelia Laurentine née Lauritzen.

Vittsjö

Hässleholm offered highly competitive land prices convienently located to Malmö and Copenhagen, making it appealing for industry to settle there.