Eggert Christopher Knuth (lawyer)
Eggert Christopher Graf Knuth-Knuthenborg (* 4. April 1786 in Copenhagen ; † 28. May 1813 in Sarpen at Christiania ) was a Danish lawyer, bailiff of Akershus and Lehnsgraf .
Life
Knuth was born in Copenhagen in 1786 into the Count's Knuth family. His father was the landowner Frederik Knuth , his mother was Juliane Marie Knuth, née von Møsting. One year after his birth, his brother Julius Knuth was born. Eggert completed his law degree in 1806 and became an auscultant at the Supreme Court that same year. In 1812 he received the rank of chamberlain .
On December 12, 1810, in Christiania, Knuth married Karen Marcusdatter Rosenkrantz, who was six years his junior, daughter of the politician and later First Minister of Norway Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz . She gave birth to her husband three years later, their son Frederik Marcus Knuth , who later became Denmark's first foreign minister. Three months after the birth of his son, Knuth drowned in an accident near Christiania in Sarpen. His wife married for the second time on June 22, 1815, and the husband became the Norwegian Major General Carl Frederik Ferdinand Vilhelm Albrecht Kaltenborn .
progeny
His marriage to Karen Rosenkrantz had two children:
- Juliane Marie (January 14, 1812 - March 30, 1878)
- Frederik Marcus Knuth (born January 11, 1813 - † January 8, 1856)
ancestors
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Eggert Christopher Knuth Count of Knuthenborg |
Frederik Knuth Count of Knuthenborg |
Eggert Christopher Knuth Count of Knuthenborg |
Adam Christoph von Knuth Count of Knuthenborg |
| Ida Margrethe von Knuth | |||
| Maria Knuth, b. of Numsen |
Michael von Numsen Field Marshal General |
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| Margrethe Marie Thomasine von Numsen, b. by Ingenhaef | |||
| Juliane Marie Knuth, b. from Møsting |
Frederik Christian von Møsting privy councilor |
Alexander Frederik von Møsting Hofmeister |
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| Christine Elisabeth von Møsting, b. from Knuth | |||
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Elisabeth Cathrine von Møsting, b. by Schack lady-in-waiting |
Otto von Schack Herr zu Kjærstrup and Bramslykke |
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Elisabeth Birgitte von Schack, b. from Rantzau mistress to Kjærstrup |
literature
- Entry in Danske Jurister 1736-1936 .
Web links
- finnholbek.dk : Eggert Christopher greve Knuth-Knuthenborg , accessed on November 10, 2019.
- reventlow.dk : Eggert Christopher Knuth , accessed on November 10, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Knuth, Eggert Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knuth, Eggert Christopher Graf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish lawyer, bailiff and count |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1786 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1813 |
| Place of death | Sarpen at Christiania |