Niels (de) Bang (20 February 1776 – 30 August 1815) was a
Danish
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Frederik Sødring
Frederik Hansen Sødring (31 May 1809 – 18 April 1862) was a Danish landscape painter and founder of an endowment.
Background
Sødring was born in Aalborg, Denmark. He was the son of merchant Peder Hansen Sødring (d. 1839) and Ane Do ...
.
Early life and education
Bang was born on 20 February 1776 in Copenhagen, the son of attorney general and later president of
Hof- og Stadsretten
was a modern-style court of justice introduced in Denmark, specifically for Copenhagen, by Johann Friedrich Struensee in 1771. In 1805, it was merged with the new for Eastern Denmark as . It was replaced by the Københavns Byret and Østre Lan ...
Ole B. (1731–89) and Else Marie Thecou (1735–1802). He was the elder brother of author Balthasar Bang.
Bang earned a
Candidate of Law
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degree from the
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...
in 1798. He then went on to study economy in
Göttingen
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and travelled in Bavaria and Switzerland to study farming and industry.
Career
Bang worked for Rentekammeret (as ''auskultant'') from 1799 to 1804. In 1800, he and his brother-in-law Christian von Eggers bourht
Benzonsdal
Benzonsdal is a manor house located at Torslunde, south of Taastrup, in the northern part of Ishøj Municipality, some 20 kilometres west of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It has been owned by members of the noble Lerche family since 1853. The main ...
from Jens Lauritz Barfred. Shortly thereafter he bought the brother-in-law's share of the estate. Fearing an outbreak of
dysentery
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in
Ishøj
Ishøj is a Danish town with a population of 20,017 (1 January 2015). In 1806, he sold Benzonsdal to Peder Bech.
In 1807, he bought Sparresholm at
Næstved
Næstved () is a town in the municipality of the same name, located in the southern part of the island of Zealand in Denmark.
Næstved has several adult education centers, five elementary schools - and has at least one of each type of the four ...
. He converted many of the tenant farms to freeholdings and had a reputation for being a progressive farmer. In 1809 he established a facility for the preparation of
flax
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on the estate.
Battle of Copenhagen
After the English landed on Zealand in 1807, he gathered and equipped a volunteer corps of 200 men and led it himself to the commanding general's headquarters. The king rewarded him in 1809 with the Knight's Cross of the Dannebrog.
Personal life
In 1802, Bang married Cathrine Amalie Henriette Callisen (1779–1879). She was the daughter of the medical doctor Henrich Callisen (1740–1824) and Marie Amalie Walcker (1756–1837).
Bang died in 1816. He is buried at Toksværd Cemetery. Sparresholm passed to his eldest son Oluf Henrich Niels de Bang. He also acquired the estate Haraldskær. The daughter Henriette Marie de Bang married the painter
Frederik Sødring
Frederik Hansen Sødring (31 May 1809 – 18 April 1862) was a Danish landscape painter and founder of an endowment.
Background
Sødring was born in Aalborg, Denmark. He was the son of merchant Peder Hansen Sødring (d. 1839) and Ane Do ...