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Decades:	1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s
See also:	Other events of 1638 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1638 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IV^[1]

Events

• Sorø is incorporated as a market town.^[2]
• Peder Winstrup is installed as Bishop of Lund.
• Jesper Brochmand is installed as Bishop of Zealand.

Culture

Art

• Henrik Werner completes the Orebygård altarpiece.
• Abraham Wuchters moves to Denmark and created a portrait of Christian IV.^[3]

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  Orebygård altarpiece
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  Abraham Wuchters' 1638 portrait of Christian IV.

Publications

• 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

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• Hans Poulsen Resen, clergy (born 1561)