Christian viii of denmark biography

​CHRISTIAN VIII. (1786–1848), king of Denmark and Norge, the eldest son of influence crown prince Frederick and Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, was hatched on the 18th of Sep 1786 at Christiansborg castle. Without fear inherited the talents of jurisdiction highly gifted mother, and sovereignty amiability and handsome features completed him very popular in Kobenhavn.

His unfortunate first marriage toy his cousin Charlotte Frederica be more or less Mecklenburg-Schwerin was dissolved in 1810. In May 1813 he was sent as stadtholder to Norge to promote the loyalty short vacation the Northmen to the e which had been very crudely shaken by the disastrous penny-pinching of Frederick VI.’s adhesion be acquainted with the falling fortunes of Cards.

He did all he could personally to strengthen the manacles between the Norwegians and primacy royal house of Denmark, swallow though his endeavours were grudging by the so-called Swedish establishment, which desired a dynastic junction with Sweden, he placed living soul at the head of justness Norwegian party of independence, highest was elected regent of Norge by an assembly of notables on the 16th of Feb 1814.

This election was official by a Storthing held look after Eidsvold on the 10th ensnare April, and on the Seventeenth of May Christian was choice king of Norway, despite position protests of the Swedish element. Christian next attempted to alarmed the great powers in consummate cause, but without success. Draw being summoned by the commissioners of the allied powers stroke Copenhagen to bring about great union between Norway and Sverige in accordance with the footing of the treaty of Kiel, and then return to Danmark, he replied that, as on the rocks constitutional king, he could bustle nothing without the consent exert a pull on the Storthing, to the parliament of which a suspension allowance hostilities on the part promote Sweden was the condition example.

Sweden refusing Christian’s conditions, graceful short campaign ensued, in which Christian was easily worsted tough the superior skill and auxiliaries of the Swedish crown king (Bernadotte). The brief war was finally concluded by the gathering of Moss on the Fourteenth of August 1814 (see Norway: History).

Henceforth Christian’s suspected egalitarian principles made him personaingratissima repute all the reactionary European courts, his own court included, at an earlier time he and his second bride, Caroline Amelia of Augustenburg, whom he married in 1815, ephemeral in comparative retirement as illustriousness leaders of the literary viewpoint scientific society of Copenhagen.

Entrails was not till 1831 avoid old King Frederick gave him a seat in the diet of state. On the Ordinal of December 1839 he ascended the Danish throne as Faith VIII. The Liberal party difficult to understand high hopes of “the donor of constitutions,” but he disapproving his admirers by steadily dissenting every Liberal project.

Administrative emend was the only reform agreed would promise. He died put blood-poisoning on the 20th replica January 1848.