Hans Seidelin (14 May 1665 - 19 January 1740) was a
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civil servant and landowner who was raised to peerage in 1731. He was district governor of
Copenhagen County
Københavns Amt () is a former county (Danish, ''Amt (subnational entity), amt'') on the island of Zealand (Denmark), Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. It covered the municipalities in the metropolitan Copenhagen area, with the excepti ...
from 1724 to 1730 and later served as Post Master General of Royal Danish Mail.
Early life
Seidelin was born on 14 May 1776 in
Helsingør
Helsingør ( , ; sv, Helsingör), classically known in English as Elsinore ( ), is a city in eastern Denmark. Helsingør Municipality had a population of 62,686 on 1 January 2018. Helsingør and Helsingborg in Sweden together form the northern ...
, the son of pastor Hans Hansen Seidelin and Sophie Davidsdatter.
Career
He worked as an
amanuensis
An amanuensis () is a person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another, and also refers to a person who signs a document on behalf of another under the latter's authority. In one example Eric Fenby ...
in Danish Chancellery from 1677 to 1679. He then became a clerk (''skriver'') at the General Commission (''Generalkommissariatet'') and 10 years later a bookkeeper (''krigsbogholder''( for the cavalry. In 1708-09, he was appointed as War Commissioner and secretary of the General Commission (''generalkommisariatssekretær''). In 1710, he was promoted to bookkeeper at the General Commission and Senior Field War Commissioner (''overkrigskommissær til felts''; until 1712) and ''kancelliråd''. In 1713, he was appointed as ''land- og krigskommissær'' for Xealand.
Møn
Møn () is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langebæk, Præstø, and Vordingbo ...
,
Lolland
Lolland (; formerly spelled ''Laaland'', literally "low land") is the fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of . Located in the Baltic Sea, it is part of Region Sjælland (Region Zealand). As of 1 January 2022, it has 57,618 inhabitant ...
and
Falster
Falster () is an island in south-eastern Denmark with an area of and 43,398 inhabitants as of 1 January 2010.
(until 1724). He served both in the
Scanian War
The Scanian War ( da, Skånske Krig, , sv, Skånska kriget, german: Schonischer Krieg) was a part of the Northern Wars involving the union of Denmark–Norway, Brandenburg and Sweden. It was fought from 1675 to 1679 mainly on Scanian soil, ...
and in the
Great Northern War
The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedi ...
.
After the war, in 1724, he was appointed as ''etatsråd'' and district governor (''antnabd'') of
Copenhagen County
Københavns Amt () is a former county (Danish, ''Amt (subnational entity), amt'') on the island of Zealand (Denmark), Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. It covered the municipalities in the metropolitan Copenhagen area, with the excepti ...
. 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 ''Generalpostamtet'' and in 1740 he was appointed to Post Master General of the Royal Danish Mail.
Property
Seidelin purchased
Hagestedgård
Hagestedgaard is a manor house and estate located at the village of Hagested, near Holbæk, Holbæk Municipality, some 60 kilometres west of Copenhagen, Denmark. The estate traces its history back to the 13th century but the current asymmetrical c ...