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GABEL, KRISTOFFER (1617-x673)

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GABEL, KRISTOFFER (1617-x673) , Danish statesman, was See also:born at Gliickstadt, on the 6th of See also:January 1617. His See also:father, Wulbern, originally a landscape painter and subsequently See also:recorder of Gliickstadt, was killed at the See also:siege of that fortress by the Imperialists in 1628. Kristoffer is first heard of in 1639, as overseer and accountant at the See also:court of See also:Duke See also:Frederick. When the duke ascended the Danish See also:throne as Frederick III., Gabel followed him to See also:Copenhagen as his private secretary and See also:man of business. Gabel, who veiled under a mysterious reticence considerable See also:financial ability and uncommon shrewdness, had See also:great See also:influence over the irresolute See also:king. During the brief See also:interval between King See also:Charles X.'s first and second attack upon See also:Denmark, Gabel was employed in several See also:secret See also:missions to See also:Sweden; and he took a See also:part in the intrigues which resulted in the autocratic revolution of 166o (see *DENMARK: See also:History). His services on this occasion have certainly been exaggerated; but if not the originator of the revolution, he was certainly the See also:chief intermediary between Frederick III. and the conjoined Estates in the mysterious See also:conspiracy which established See also:absolutism in Denmark. His activity on this occasion won the king's lifelong gratitude. He was enriched, ennobled, and in 1664 made See also:governor of Copenhagen. From this See also:year must be dated his open and See also:official influence and See also:power, and from 166o to 167o he was the most considerable personage at court, and very largely employed in financial and See also:diplomatic affairs. When Frederick III. died, in See also:February 1670, Gabel's power was at an end. The new ruler, See also:Christian V., hated him, and accusations against him poured in from every See also:quarter.

When, on the 18th of See also:

April 167o, he was dismissed, nobody sympathized with the man who had grown wealthy at a See also:time when other See also:people found it hard to live. He died on the 13th of See also:October 1673. See Carl Frederik Bricka, Dansk. Biograf. Lex. See also:art " Gabel " (Copenhagen, 1887, &c.) ; Danmarks Riges Historie (Copenhagen, 1897-1005), vol. V.

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