Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig (or Laurwigen; 1 July 1688 – 18 September 1754), count of Larvik, ''Gehejmekonferensråd'' (

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) and director of the

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from 1723.

Early life and education

The son of

Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig (20 July 1638 – 17 April 1704) was Governor-general of Norway (''Stattholdere i Norge'') from 1664–1699. He was the leading general in Norway during the Scanian War, whose Norwegian leg is conventio ...

and Augusta af Aldenburg, Ferdinand Anton was born on 1 July 1688 at the Gyldenløve Mansion on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. From an early age he was appointed as Chamberlain. In 1714 he became

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Property

When his father died in 1704 he inherited several large estates, including the County of Laurvig in Norway and

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in Schleswig-Holstein. He also received Gyldenløve's Little Mansion on

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in Copenhagen. In the early 1720s he altered the house with the assistance of the architect Johan Cornelius Krieger.

Career

In 1713 he was appointed gehejmeråd and was awarded the

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two weeks later. After his first wife had died in 1712, only a year after their marriage, on 20 December 1713 he married Ulrike Eleonore Reventlow, sister of

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. Count Danneskiold-Laurvig was neither much in favour with King Frederick IV nor his successor, King

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. On 11 January 1723 he was appointed as director of the

. He died in Copenhagen on 18 September 1754 and was buried from the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Danneskiold-Laurvig, Ferdinand Anton 1688 births 1754 deaths Nobility from Copenhagen

Early life and education

Property

Career

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