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Wilhelm August Von Der Osten
Wilhelm August van der Osten (7 January 1697 – 15 January 1764) was a Danish civil servant. Early life Wilhelm August von der Osten was born in Copenhagen, the son of lord chamberlain Peter Christoph van der Osten (1659–1730) and Louise Benedicte von Reichow (1670–1755). He attended Sorø Academy. Career He began his career as squire for queen Anna Sophie. He then served as the leader of the Bergenhus stiftamt (''stiftsbefalingsmand'') in Bergen and also the Bergenhus county governor (''amtmand'') from 1728 to 1732. In 1735, he was appointed to district governor of Sorø County as well as director of Sorø Abbey. He was involved in the revival of Sorø Academy. From 1738 he also served as director of Øresund Custom House. In 1843, he left Sorø to assume a position as director of the financial administration in Copenhagen and was also appointed as member of the treasury (''rentekammeret''). He vigorously advocated a limitation of state expenditure, leading to the es ...
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Denmark
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Ordre De L'Union Parfaite
The Ordre de l'Union Parfaite was created by Queen consort Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Sophie Magdalene of Denmark and Norway on 7 August 1732 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of her happy marriage with King Christian VI of Denmark, Christian VI of Denmark and Norway. It was given to both men and women. Its motto was ''In felicissimæ Unionis Memoriam'' ("In Commemoration of the Happiest [Marital] Union"). Conferral of the Order ceased after the death of the Queen on 7 May 1770. The French language, French name can be translated as ''Order of the Perfect Union'' or ''Order of Friendship''. The use of French was not unusual in the eighteenth century royal Denmark, Danish court or in Sophie Magdalene's Germans, German homeland, where other such examples exist, such as the Pour le Mérite, Ordre pour le Mérite and the Ordre de la Sincérité. Insignia image:Ordre de l'Union Parfaite (Amalienborg Museum).JPG, 130px, Badge, Ordre de l'Union Parfaite The badge or ...
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1697 Births
Events January–March * January 8 – Thomas Aikenhead is hanged outside Edinburgh, becoming the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy. * January 11 – French writer Charles Perrault releases the book '' Histoires ou contes du temps passé'' (literally "Tales of Past Times", known in England as "Mother Goose tales") in Paris, a collection of popular fairy tales, including ''Cinderella'', '' Puss in Boots'', ''Red Riding Hood'', ''The Sleeping Beauty'' and ''Bluebeard''. * February 8 – The English infantry regiment of Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall is disbanded four years after it was first raised. * February 22 – Gerrit de Heere becomes the new Governor of Dutch Ceylon, succeeding Thomas van Rhee and administering the colony for almost six years until his death. * February 26 – Conquistador Martín de Ursúa y Arizmendi and 114 soldiers arrive at Lake Petén Itzá in what is now Guatemala and begin the Spanish conquest of ...
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Danish Civil Servants
Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity * A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe * Danish (name), a male given name and surname Language * Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany * Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages Food * Danish cuisine * Danish pastry, often simply called a "Danish" See also * Dane (other) * * Gdańsk * List of Danes * Languages of Denmark The Kingdom of Denmark has only one official language, Danish, the national language of the Danish people, but there are several minority languages spoken, namely Faroese, German, and Greenlandic. A large majority (about 86%) of Danes also s ... {{disambiguation Language and nation ...
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Ulrik Kaas
Ulrik is a male name, a Scandinavian form of Ulrich. Ulrik may refer to: * Ulrik Frederik Christian Arneberg (1829–1911), Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party *Albert Ulrik Bååth (1853–1912), Swedish poet * Ulrik Balling (born 1975), Danish professional football player *Ulrik of Denmark (1578–1624) * Ulrik of Denmark (1611–1633) *Johan Ulrik Sebastian Gripenberg (1795–1869), Finnish politician * Christian Ulrik Gyldenløve (1611–1640), Danish diplomat and military officer *Hans Ulrik Gyldenløve (1615–1645), Danish diplomat *Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve (1630–1658), illegitimate child of Christian IV of Denmark and Vibeke Kruse *Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve, Count of Samsø (1678–1719), Danish navy Admiral and son of Christian V of Denmark *Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig (1638–1704), King Frederick III of Denmark's illegitimate son *Ulrik Huber (1636–1694), professor of law at the University of Franeker and a political philosopher *Ulrik ...
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Christian Bagger
Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ''mashiach'' (מָשִׁיחַ) (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It does not have a meaning of 'of Christ' or 'related or pertaining to Christ'. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Ameri ...
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Andreas Undall
Andreas Undall (1669-1728) was a Norwegian government official. He served as the County Governor of Lister og Mandal county from 1699 to 1711 and then he was the Diocesan Governor of Bergenhus stiftamt Bergenhus is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. This borough encompasses the city centre and is the most urbanized area of the whole city. The borough has a population (2014) of 40,606. This gives Bergenhus a populati ... from 1711 until his death in 1728. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Undall, Andreas 1669 births 1728 deaths County governors of Norway ...
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Prince William Mansion, Copenhagen
The Prince Wilhelm Mansion (Danish language, Danish: Prins Wilhelms Palæ) is a historic property on the corner of Sankt Annæ Plads and Amaliegade in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is owned by the property investment company Jeudan which is headquartered in the building. History 18th century The mansion was built from 1749 to 1752 for Wilhelm August von der Osten. It was located in the former grounds of Sophie Amalienborg which were now up for redevelopment into the new district Frederiksstaden. Robert Tuite (1746-1811), a plantation owner from Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies, purchased the building in 1777. He also acquired the Andreas Bjørn House and an associated sugar refinery, Union House, in Christianshavn. He married Mary Ann (-1807), the widow of Robert Cotton Trefusis. in London in 1780. The couple lived in the mansion on Sankt Annæ Plads but divorced in 1787 and Tuite moved back to Saint Croiz in 1792. Charles August Selby, Tuite 's cousin and business partner ...
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Frederiksstaden
Frederiksstaden is a district in Copenhagen, Denmark. Constructed during the reign of Frederick V in the second half of the 18th century, it is considered to be one of the most important rococo complexes in Europe and was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon. It was developed to commemorate the 300 years jubilee of the House of Oldenburg ascending to the Danish throne. A. G. Moltke was in charge of the project and Nicolai Eigtved was the main architect. Frederiksstaden has Amalienborg Palace, the Danish residence palace complex with François Joseph Saly's equestrian statue monument to King Frederik V of Denmark in the middle of the octagonal plaza, and Frederik's Church at its center. Together they create an axis that was extended with the creation of the new Copenhagen Opera House in 2005 on the other side of the harbor basin. The district is characterized by straight broad streets in a straight-angled street layout. The streets are lined by bourgeois houses, mansion ...
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Order Of The Elephant
The Order of the Elephant ( da, Elefantordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry and is Denmark's highest-ranked honour. It has origins in the 15th century, but has officially existed since 1693, and since the establishment of constitutional monarchy in 1849, is now almost exclusively used to honour royalty and heads of state. History A Danish religious confraternity called the Fellowship of the Mother of God, limited to about fifty members of the Danish aristocracy, was founded during the reign of Christian I during the 15th century. The badge of the confraternity showed the Virgin Mary holding her Son within a crescent moon and surrounded with the rays of the sun, and was hung from a collar of links in the form of elephants much like the present collar of the Order. After the Reformation in 1536 the confraternity died out, but a badge in the form of an elephant with his profile on its right side was still awarded by Frederick II. This latter badge may have been inspire ...
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan area has 2,057,142 people. Copenhagen is on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. Beginning in the 17th century, it consolidated its position as a regional centre of power with its institutions, defences, and armed forces. During the Renaissance the city served as the de facto capital of the Kalmar Union, being the seat of monarchy, governing the majority of the present day Nordic region in a personal union with Sweden and Norway ruled by the ...
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Order Of The Dannebrog
The Order of the Dannebrog ( da, Dannebrogordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry instituted in 1671 by Christian V. Until 1808, membership in the order was limited to fifty members of noble or royal rank, who formed a single class known as ''White Knights'' to distinguish them from the ''Blue Knights'' who were members of the Order of the Elephant. In 1808, the Order was reformed and divided into four classes. The ''Grand Commander'' class is reserved to persons of princely origin. It is awarded only to royalty with close family ties with the Danish Royal House. The statute of the Order was amended in 1951 by a Royal Ordinance so that both men and women could be members of the Order. Today, the Order of the Dannebrog is a means of honouring and rewarding the faithful servants of the modern Danish state for meritorious civil or military service, for a particular contribution to the arts, sciences or business life, or for working for Danish interests. Insignia The ''bad ...
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