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See also: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
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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
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In 1831 he succeeded Johan See also:Sigismund Mosting (1789-1843), as minister of See also:finance
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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
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The services which See also:Count Moltke rendered to See also:Denmark cannot be too highly appreciated
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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: N . |
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