Frederik Gabel (1645–1708) was a Danish-Norwegian nobleman who served as Vice Governor-general of Norway from 1699 until his death in 1708.

Biography

Frederik Gabel was the son of

Christoffer Gabel Christoffer Gabel (6 January 1617 – 13 October 1673) was a Danish statesman. Biography He was born on 6 January 1617 at Glückstadt.Bruun (2008), p.110Bricka (1891), p.512 His father, Wulbern or Waldemar Gabel, originally a cartographer and ...

(1617–1673) who held the trade monopoly for the Faroe Islands. From 1667 through 1685 he served as a diplomatic envoy in Paris and Moscow. He married Anne Cathrine Juul on 25 April 1671 in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of former Vice Governor-general of Norway Ove Juel (1615–1686). Gabel promoted a relatively progressive viewpoint, promoting increased separation between the administration in Denmark and that in Norway.

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 ...

had been Governor-general of Norway from 1664 through 1699, but served much of that time in Denmark, relying on his Vice Governors,

Ove Juul Ove Juul (23 October 1615 – 29 May 1686) was a Danish nobleman who served as Vice Governor-general of Norway under Ulrik Fredrik Gyldenløve from 1669 to 1674. Family and youth Ove's father was Iver Juul at Villestrup, Thaarupgaard and Lundbæk ...

and Just Justesen Høeg (1640-1694). Based on his kinship to the king, Gyldenløve, as with Hannibal Sehested before him, had held substantial powers to act freely in Norway. Gabel was authorized extended powers when compared with his immediate predecessor, Just Høeg, but notably less freedom of action than Gyldenløve. Gabel drafted guidelines based on management principles to guide his stewardship of both the King's land and the country of Norway and proposed them to the King in a letter dated 11 September 1700. During the severe fire in Bergen in 1702, Gabel was present. He witnessed the obvious class hatred as the proletariat did nothing while the houses of the wealthy burned. After investigation, he concluded that great inequities had developed as the upper class had taken powers to themselves. He took those action he could, but lacking the power to act as broadly as he'd like by himself, he wrote letters to the King proposing reforms to reduce the class divide. He died in Copenhagen on June 21, 1708. He was buried in

St. Petri Church St. Petri Church ( no, St. Petri kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the large Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the borough of Storhaug which lies near the centre of the city of Stavanger in th ...

in Copenhagen. He was succeeded as Governor-general of Norway by Johan Vibe (1634–1710).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gabel, Frederik 17th-century Danish nobility 18th-century Danish nobility Governors-general of Norway 17th-century Norwegian nobility 1645 births 1708 deaths