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Christian Ditlev Frederik, Greve Reventlow

Danish government official
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March 11, 1748, Copenhagen, Den.
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Oct. 11, 1827, Lolland (aged 79)
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Christian Ditlev Frederik, Greve (count) Reventlow (born March 11, 1748, Copenhagen, Den.—died Oct. 11, 1827, Lolland) was a Danish state official whose agrarian reforms led to the liberation of the peasantry in Denmark. Reventlow traveled to several western European countries in the 1760s to study economic conditions. He returned to Denmark in 1770 and entered state service in 1773. He experimented with agrarian reform on the Lolland estates, which he inherited in 1775. In 1784 he was named head of the Rentekammer (department of finance), with responsibility for agriculture. On the basis of four earlier experiments he had conducted, Reventlow ...(100 of 182 words)

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