The Kultus Minister of Denmark was a Danish

Denmark

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 minister office. The responsibilities of the minister was the church, culture

Culture

Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 and education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

. The word kultus is Latin

Latin

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 for adoration, from which the words culture

Culture

Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 and cult

Cult

The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...

 are derived.

In 1916 the office was split up into an Education Minister and a Church Minister. The new Church Minister had responsibility for culture, a task transferred to the Minister for Cultural Affairs in 1961.

List of Kultus Ministers

There may or may not have been Kultus Ministers before Denmark became a constitutional monarchy in 1848

Name	Birth—Death	Held Position
Ditlev Gothard Monrad Ditlev Gothard Monrad Ditlev Gothard Monrad was a Danish politician and bishop of Lolland-Falster.Monrad was one of the pioneers of the making of a constitutional Denmark after 1848...	1811–1887	22 March 1848 – 15 November 1848
Johan Nicolai Madvig Johan Nicolai Madvig Johan Nicolai Madvig , was a Danish philologist and Kultus Minister.He was born on the island of Bornholm. He was educated at the classical school of Frederiksborg and the University of Copenhagen. In 1828 he became reader, and in 1829 professor of Latin language and literature at Copenhagen, and...	1804–1886	16 November 1848 – 7 December 1851
Peter Georg Bang Peter Georg Bang Peter Georg Bang was a Danish politician and jurist. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark 1854-1856 as leader of the Cabinet of Bang....	1797–1861	7 December 1851 – 3 June 1852
Carl Frederik Simony	1806–1872	3 June 1852 – 21 April 1853
Anders Sandøe Ørsted Anders Sandøe Ørsted Anders Sandøe Ørsted was a Danish politician and jurist. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark in 1853-1854 as leader of the Cabinet of Ørsted....	1778–1860	21 April 1853 – 12 December 1854
Carl Christian Hall Carl Christian Hall Carl Christian Hall , Danish statesman, son of the highly respected artisan and train-band colonel Marls Hall, was born at Christianshavn....	1812–1888	12 December 1854 – 6 May 1859
Ditlev Gothard Monrad Ditlev Gothard Monrad Ditlev Gothard Monrad was a Danish politician and bishop of Lolland-Falster.Monrad was one of the pioneers of the making of a constitutional Denmark after 1848...	1811–1887	6 May 1859 – 2 December 1859
Vilhem August Borgen	1801–1884	2 December 1859 – 24 February 1860
Ditlev Gothard Monrad Ditlev Gothard Monrad Ditlev Gothard Monrad was a Danish politician and bishop of Lolland-Falster.Monrad was one of the pioneers of the making of a constitutional Denmark after 1848...	1811–1887	24 February 1860 – 31 December 1863
Christian Thorning Engelstoft	1805–1889	31 December 1863 – 11 July 1864
Eugenius Sophus Ernst Heltzen	1818–1898	11 July 1864 – 30 March 1865
Georg Joachim Quaade	1813–1889	30 March 1865 – 7 April 1865
Cosmus Bræstrup	1789–1870	7 April 1865 – 6 November 1865
Christian Peter Theodor Rosenørn–Teilmann	1817–1879	6 November 1865 - 4 September 1867
Peter Christian Kjerkegaard	1805–1888	4 September 1867 – 6 March 1868
Christian Andreas Fonnesbech	1817–1880	6 March 1868 – 15 March 1868
Aleth Sophus Hansen	1817–1889	15 March 1868 – 22 September 1869
Ernst Emil Rosenørn	1810–1894	22 September 1869 – 28 May 1870
Carl Christian Hall Carl Christian Hall Carl Christian Hall , Danish statesman, son of the highly respected artisan and train-band colonel Marls Hall, was born at Christianshavn....	1812–1888	28 May 1870 – 14 July 1874
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae was a Danish archaeologist, historian and politician, who was the second director of the National Museum of Denmark . He played a key role in the foundation of scientific archaeology. Worsaae was the first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove C.J...	1821–1885	14 July 1874 – 11 June 1875
Johan Christian Henrik Fischer	1814–1885	11 June 1875 – 24 August 1880
Jacob Frederik Scavenius	1833–1915	24 August 1880 – 6 July 1891
Johannes Magnus Valdemar Nellemann	1831–1906	6 July 1891 – 10 July 1891
August Hermann Ferdinand Carl Goos	1835–1917	10 July 1891 – 7 August 1894
Vilhelm Bardenfleth	1850–1933	7 August 1894 – 23 May 1897
Hans Valdemar Sthyr	1838–1905	23 May 1897 – 27 April 1900
Jens Jacobsen Kokholm Bjerre	1847–1901	27 April 1900 – 24 July 1901
Jens Christian Christensen	1856–1930	24 July 1901 – 14 January 1905
Enevold Frederik Adolf Sørensen Enevold Frederik Adolf Sørensen Enevold Frederik Adolf Sørensen was a Danish editor, politician and minister.He was interior minister in the Cabinet of Deuntzer and kultus minister in the Cabinet of J.C. Christensen I and II, the Cabinet of Neergaard I and the Cabinet of Holstein-Ledreborg as a member of the Venstre Reform Party...	1850–1920	14 January 1905 – 28 October 1909
Michael Cosmus Bornemann Nielsen	1847–1930	28 October 1909 – 5 July 1910
Jacob Christian Lindberg Appel	1866–1931	5 July 1910 – 21 June 1913
Søren Keiser-Nielsen	1856–1926	21 June 1913 – 30 March 1920