Struensee, Johann Friedrich Von

Born Aug. 5, 1737, in Halle; died Apr. 28, 1772, in Copenhagen. Danish statesman. Count (1771).

Struensee was of German descent. In 1768 he was appointed physician to the mentally ill king Christian VII and became in effect his counsellor. After J. H. von Bernstorff resigned in September 1770, Struensee became the single most powerful state figure, rising to the post of privy cabinet minister in 1771. He enacted several reforms in the spirit of enlightened absolutism, such as equality before the law, religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and the abolition of torture and corporal punishment. Struensee was arrested during a palace revolution on the night of Jan. 16, 1772; later he was executed and his reforms were abolished.

单词	struensee, johann friedrich von
释义	Struensee, Johann Friedrich Von Struensee, Johann Friedrich Von Born Aug. 5, 1737, in Halle; died Apr. 28, 1772, in Copenhagen. Danish statesman. Count (1771). Struensee was of German descent. In 1768 he was appointed physician to the mentally ill king Christian VII and became in effect his counsellor. After J. H. von Bernstorff resigned in September 1770, Struensee became the single most powerful state figure, rising to the post of privy cabinet minister in 1771. He enacted several reforms in the spirit of enlightened absolutism, such as equality before the law, religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and the abolition of torture and corporal punishment. Struensee was arrested during a palace revolution on the night of Jan. 16, 1772; later he was executed and his reforms were abolished.
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