Christian Ditlev Frederik, Count Reventlow (1748-1827) was a Danish statesman and reformer, the son of Privy Councillor Christian Ditlev Reventlow, born on March 11, 1748. This article concerns the British Sovereigns Privy Council. ...

After being educated at the academy of Sor and at Leipzig, Reventlow, in company with his younger brother Johan Ludwig and the distinguished Saxon economist Carl Wendt (1731-1815), the best of cicerones on such a tour, travelled through Germany, Switzerland, France and England, to examine the social, economical and agricultural conditions of civilized Europe. A visit to Sweden and Norway to study mining and metallurgy completed the curriculum, and when Reventlow in the course of 1770 returned to Denmark he was an authority on all the economic questions of the day. Sor or SOR can be: The composer Fernando Sor A stringed instrument used in Mor lam music Any of a number of rivers, see River Sor Sør is the Norwegian word for a county and appears at the start of the names of most Norwegian regions. ... Leipzig ▶(?) [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... With an area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Inter. ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and of materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures, which are called alloys. ...

In 1774 he held a high position in the Kammarkollegiet, or board of trade, two years later he entered the Department of Mines, and in 1781 he was a member of the Overskattedirectionen, or chief taxing board. He had, in 1774, married Frederica Charlotte von Beulwitz, who bore him thirteen children, and on his father's death in 1775 inherited the family estate in Laaland. Reventlow overflowed with progressive ideas, especially as regards agriculture, and he devoted himself, heart and soul, to the improvement of his property and the amelioration of his serfs. Fortunately, the ambition to play a useful part in a wider field of activity than he could find in the country ultimately prevailed. His time came when the ultra-conservative ministry of Hoegh Guldberg was dismissed (April 14, 1784) and Andreas Peter Bernstorff, the statesman for whom Reventlow had the highest admiration, returned to power. Lolland (formerly spelled Laaland) is the fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of some 1,243 square kilometers. ... Costumes of Slaves or Serfs, from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, collected by H. de Vielcastel, from original Documents in the great Libraries of Europe. ... Andreas Peter Bernstorff (August 28, 1735 - June 21, 1797) was a Danish stateman and politician. ...

Reventlow was an excellently trained specialist in many departments, and was always firm and confident in those subjects which he had made his own. Moreover, he was a man of strong and warm feelings, and deeply religious.

The condition of the peasantry especially interested him. He was convinced that free labor would be far more profitable to the land, and that the peasant himself would be, better if released from his thraldom.

His favorite field of labor was thrown open to him when, on August 6, 1784, he was placed at the head of the Rentekamtneret, which took cognisance of everything relating to agriculture. His first step was to appoint a small agricultural commission to better the condition of the crown serfs, and among other things enable them to turn their leaseholds into freeholds. Observing that the Frederick VI was also favorably disposed towards the amelioration of the peasantry, Reventlow induced him, in July 1786, to appoint a grand commission to take the condition of all the peasantry in the kingdom into immediate consideration. This celebrated agricultural commission continued its labors for many years, and introduced a whole series of reforms of the highest importance. Thus the ordinance of June 8, 1787 modified the existing leaseholds, greatly to the advantage of the peasantry; the ordinance of June 20, 1788 abolished villenage and completely transformed the much-abused hoveri system whereby the feudal tenant was bound to cultivate his lords land as well as his own; and the ordinance of December 6, 1799, which did away with hoveri altogether. Reventlow was also instrumental in starting the public credit banks, for enabling small cultivators to borrow money on favorable terms. In conjunction with his friend, Heinrich Ernst Schimmelmann (1747-1831), he also procured the passing of the ordinances permitting free trade between Denmark and Norway, the free importation of corn from abroad, and the abolition of the mischievous monopoly of the Iceland trade. King Frederick VI. King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway (January 28, 1768 – December 3, 1839), reigned as King of Denmark from 1808 to 1839, and as king of Norway from 1808 to 1814. ... Corn can mean: In Commonwealth countries, corn usually refers to any cereal, including, but not limited to maize In the U.S., Canada, and Australia, corn refers only to the cereal known in Commonwealth English as maize (also know as sweetcorn when removed from the head (also known as the... In economics, a monopoly (from the Greek monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a kind of product or service. ...

But the financial distress of Denmark, the jealousy of the duchies, the ruinous political complications of the Napoleonic period, and, above all, the Crown Prince Frederick's growing jealousy of his official advisers, which led him to rule, or rather misrule, for years without the co-operation of his Council of State -- all these calamities were at last too much even for Reventlow. On December 7, 1813 he received his dismissal and retired to his estates, where, after working cheerfully among his peasantry to the last, he died on the th of October 1827. A duchy is a territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess. ... The Napoleonic Era is a period in the History of France. ...

See Adolph Frederik Bergse, Grey. C. D. F. Reventlows Virksomhed (Copenhagen, 1837); Louis Theodor Alfred Bobé, Efterladte Papirer fra den Reventlowske Familiekreds (Copenhagen, 1895-97). Copenhagen (Danish: København) is faaaabulous. ...

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• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.