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Andreas Peter, Greve von Bernstorff

Danish foreign minister
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Born:
Aug. 28, 1735, Hannover, Hanover [Germany]
Died:
June 21, 1797, Copenhagen, Den. (aged 61)

Andreas Peter, Greve (count) von Bernstorff (born Aug. 28, 1735, Hannover, Hanover [Germany]—died June 21, 1797, Copenhagen, Den.) was a statesman who maintained the neutrality of Denmark during the last quarter of the 18th century and who took a leading part in Danish domestic reform. In 1758 Bernstorff joined the Danish Foreign Office, from which he was dismissed in 1770. He returned to the office in 1772 and became foreign minister the next year. On Aug. 12, 1773, he concluded a partly defensive and partly anti-Swedish treaty of alliance between Denmark and Russia. During the American Revolution, Bernstorff sympathized with ...(100 of 323 words)

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