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COUNT ADAM WILHELM MOLTKE (1785-1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 677 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT See also:ADAM WILHELM See also:MOLTKE (1785-1864)  , Danish statesman, son of the See also:minister See also:Joachim Godske See also:Moltke (1746-18r8), and See also:grandson of See also:Adam Gottlob Moltke, was See also:born at Einsiedelsborg in Funen, on the 25th of See also:August 1785 . Under the See also:influence of the agricultural reformer See also:Christian Colbjornsen he abandoned the legal career he had adopted and entered the administrative service of the See also:state, to which he devoted the See also:remainder of his See also:life . In 1831 he succeeded Johan See also:Sigismund Mosting (1789-1843), as minister of See also:finance . On the See also:death of Christian VIII. he was one of the most prominent members of the See also:Council of State, and when the constitutional crisis came in 1848 he seemed marked out as the See also:man who could See also:bridge over the See also:gap between the old era and the new . The services which See also:Count Moltke rendered to See also:Denmark cannot be too highly appreciated . The See also:mere fact that a distinguished statesman who had served the last two See also:absolute See also:kings of Denmark now voluntarily placed himself at the See also:head of a See also:ministry which included the most advanced of the popular See also:agitators, gave the new See also:government the See also:hall-See also:mark of stability and trustworthiness, whilst the fact that he still retained the ministry of finance was of itself a See also:guarantee of See also:security during the earlier years of a trouble-some and costly See also:war . It was this, his first See also:administration, which introduced the constitution of the 5th of See also:June 1849, and he also presided over the third constitutional ministry which was formed in See also:July 1851; but he resigned on the 27th of See also:January 1852, because he could not approve of the See also:decree which aimed at transforming Denmark into a composite, indivisible, See also:monarchy . Moltke continued to take See also:part in public life as a member of the Landsting, or Upper See also:House, but henceforth kept in the background . On the 2nd of See also:October 1855 he was elected a member of the consultative Rigsraad, a position he continued to hold till 1863 . He died on the 15th of See also:February 1864 . See Swalin, Det danske Siaatsraad (See also:Stockholm, 1881); See also:Madvig, Livserindringer (See also:Copenhagen, 1887) . (R .

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