Hans Seidelin (14 May 1665 – 19 January 1740) was a Danish civil servant and landowner who was raised to peerage in 1731. He was district governor of Copenhagen County from 1724 to 1730 and later served as Postmaster General of the Royal Danish Mail.
Early life
Seidelin was born on 14 May 1776 in
Helsingør
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, the son of pastor Hans Hansen Seidelin and Sophie Davidsdatter.
Career
He worked as an
amanuensis
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In some aca ...
in Danish Chancellery from 1677 to 1679. He then became a scribe () at the General Commission () and 10 years later a bookkeeper () for the cavalry. In 1708–1709, he was appointed War Commissioner and secretary of the General Commission (). In 1710, he was promoted to bookkeeper of the General Commission and Senior Field War Commissioner (; until 1712) and . In 1713, he was appointed of
Zealand
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,
Møn
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,
Lolland
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and
Falster
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(until 1724). He served both in the
Scanian War
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and in the
Great Northern War
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.
After the war, in 1724, he was appointed as and district governor () of Copenhagen County. He also served as Supreme Court justice from 24 to 1739 and Hofretten justice from 1731 to 1735.
He stopped as district governor of Copenhagen County in 1730 to serve as assume a position as director of and in 1740 he was appointed Postmaster General of the Royal Danish Mail.
Hans Didrik Brinck-Seidelin
Hans Diderik de Brinck-Seidelin (1 August 1720 - 5 March 1778) was a Danish Supreme Court justice and landowner who was raised to the peerage under the name Brinck-Seidelin in 1753. He owned the estates Hagestedgård (1748-1769), Holbæk Ladeg ...