Executed Danish People - Executed Danish Women, Johann Friedrich Struensee, Anne Palles, Maren Spliid, Anna Koldings, Christenze Kruckow (Paperback)

Chapters: Executed Danish Women, Johann Friedrich Struensee, Anne Palles, Maren Spliid, Anna Koldings, Christenze Kruckow, Gyde Spandemager, Skipper Clement, Dina Vinhofvers, Torben Oxe, Oluf Van Steenwinckel. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Count Johann Friedrich von Struensee (Halle an der Saale, 5 August 1737 - Copenhagen, 28 April 1772) was a German doctor. He became royal physician to the schizophrenic King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish government. He rose in power to a position of de facto regent of the country, where he tried to carry out widespread reforms. His affair with Queen Caroline Matilda (Caroline Mathilde) caused scandal, especially after the birth of a daughter, Princess Louise Augusta, and was the catalyst for the intrigues and power play that caused his downfall and dramatic death. He died unmarried. Baptized at Kirche St. Moritz on 7 August 1737, Struensee was the third child of six born to Pietist theologian and minister Adam Struensee (baptized in Neuruppin on 8 September 1708 - Rendsburg, 20 June 1791), Pfarrer ("curate") in Halle an der Saale in 1732, "Dr. theol. (h. c.) von Halle" ("Doctor of Theology from the University of Halle) in 1757, Pfarrer in Altona between 1757 and 1760, "Kgl. Generalsuperintendant von Schleswig und Holstein" ("Royal superintendent of Schleswig and Holstein") between 1760 and 1791, and wife (m. Berleburg, 8 May 1732) Maria Dorothea Carl (Berleburg, 31 July 1716 - Schleswig, 31 December 1792), a respectable middle-class family that believed in religious tolerance. Three of the Struensee sons went to University, but none became theologians like their father; two of the daughters married ministers. Johann Friedrich entered the University of Halle on August 5, 1752 at the ag...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=43984