Count Johann Friedrich Struensee ( 5 August 1737 – 28 April 1772 ) was a German doctor.

Born at Halle an der Saale and baptized at Kirche St. Moritz on 7 August 1737, Struensee was the third child of six born to Pietist theologian and minister Adam Struensee ( baptized in Neuruppin on 8 September 1708 – Rendsburg, 20 June 1791 ), Pfarrer (" curate ") in Halle an der Saale in 1732, " Dr. theol.

Struensee was a clever doctor, and having somewhat restored the king's health while visiting the area, gained the king's affection.

At first Caroline Matilda ( Princess Caroline Matilda ) disliked Struensee, but she was unhappy in her marriage, neglected and spurned by the king, and affected by his illness.

But Struensee was one of the few people that paid attention to the lonely queen, and he seemed to do his best to alleviate her troubles.

Struensee was named royal adviser ( forelæser ) and konferensråd on 5 May 1770 and " Maître des requêtes " on 18 December.

Because King Christian was scarcely responsible for his actions, Struensee dictated whatever answers he pleased.

What incensed the people most against him was the way in which he put the king completely on one side ; and this feeling was all the stronger as, outside a very narrow court circle, nobody seems to have believed that Christian VII was really mad, but only that his will had been weakened by habitual ill usage ; and this opinion was confirmed by the publication of the cabinet order of 14 July 1771, appointing Struensee " gehejme kabinetsminister " or " Geheimekabinetsminister ", with authority to issue cabinet orders which were to have the force of royal ordinances, even if unprovided with the royal sign-manual.

The general ill will against Struensee, which had been smouldering all through the autumn of 1771, found expression at last in a secret conspiracy against him, headed by Rantzau-Ascheburg and others, in the name of the Queen Dowager Juliana Maria, who in this way was willing to wrest power away from the king, and secure her and her son ’ s position of power for many years to come.

Early in the morning of 17 January 1772, Struensee, Brandt and Queen Caroline Matilda were arrested in their respective bedrooms, and the perceived liberation of the king, who was driven round Copenhagen by his deliverers in a gold carriage, was received with universal rejoicing.

The chief charge against Struensee was that he had usurped the royal authority in contravention of the Royal Law ( Kongelov ).

Sentence of death was the least that Struensee had to expect.

Judgement of the queen's affair was much harsher than that accorded the king, and Victorian-era morality in the next century was not kinder to either Struensee or Caroline Matilda.

Written in German on a drawing the king made in 1775, three years after Struensee ’ s execution, was the following: " Ich hätte gern beide gerettet " (" I would have liked to have saved them both "), referring to Struensee and Brandt.

This occurred during the regime of Johann Friedrich Struensee, whose first act was to abolish the old censorship laws.

His finest production was Struensee ( 1868 ), which was preceded by Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1851 ) and Juffrouw Serklaas (" Mrs Serklaas ," 1857 ).

When Adam and Maria Dorothea Struensee moved to Altona in 1758, where the elder Struensee became pastor of Marienkirche ( Mary ’ s Church ), Johann Friedrich moved with them.

They managed to maneuver Struensee into a position as King Christian VII's travelling physician, also with the hope that he could give them access to the royal court again.

The king, queen, Struensee and Enevold Brandt, along with the royal court spent the summer of 1771 at Hirschholm Palace north of Copenhagen, and stayed there until late in the autumn.

The king returned to Copenhagen on 12 January 1769, bringing with him Johann Friedrich Struensee as royal physician, who would later also become a minister in his court.

Struensee encouraged the king to improve his relationship with Caroline Matilda, and Christian VII showed his attention to her in the form of a three-day birthday party on 22 July 1769.

He was again dismissed without a pension, on the 10th of December 1770, for refusing to have anything to do with Struensee.

After the removal and execution of Johann Friedrich Struensee on 28 April 1772 her husband found favor with the King again and with it, he was appointed Governor of Norway in September 1772.

After the arrest of Struensee and Queen Caroline Mathilde on 17 January 1772, and the subsequent execution of Struensee and the banishment and imprisonment of her mother, she was raised at the Danish court residing at Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen along with her three-year old brother, Crown Prince Frederik under the supervision of the Dowager Queen Juliane Marie.

Other criticisms of Struensee are that he did not respect native Danish and Norwegian customs, seeing them as prejudices and wanting to eliminate them in favor of abstract principles.

Other criticisms of Struensee are that he did not respect native Danish and Norwegian customs, seeing them as prejudices and wanting to eliminate them in favour of abstract principles.

Among these friends were Enevold Brandt and Count Schack Carl Rantzau, leader of a circle of followers of the Enlightenment, who treated Struensee as his protégé.

Senior ministers, such as Joseph I of Portugal's Marquis of Pombal and Struensee in Denmark governed according to Enlightenment ideals.

Commager originally studied Danish history, and wrote his Ph. D. dissertation on the Danish philosophe Johann Friedrich Struensee, a major reformer during the Enlightenment.

* The Lost Queen by Norah Lofts, a biography of Queen Caroline Matilda, naturally gives a major place to Struensee

In the Struensee years 1770-71 he was dismissed but soon he was recalled by the new regime of Ove Høegh-Guldberg.

Supported by her new informal power position at court, Struensee ruled through the king.

Danish art was well served by the presence of foreign artists at the Academy until there was a reaction to foreigners in 1771-1772 after both the ouster of German Johann Friedrich Struensee from the Danish Royal Court, and Swedish King Gustav III's coup d ' état which turned Danes against Sweden.

The king ’ s ministers Bernstorff and Finance Minister H. C. Schimmelmann saw Struensee as having a positive influence on the king, and stood behind his being named the king's personal physician January 1769 after their return to Copenhagen.

* January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark.

* August 5 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, Danish royal physician ( d. 1772 )

Three of the Struensee sons went to University, but none became theologians like their father ; two of the daughters married ministers.

His parents moved to Rendsburg in 1760 where Adam Struensee became first superintendent ( comparable to bishop ) for the duchy, and subsequently superintendent-general of Schleswig-Holstein.

Johann Struensee, now 23 years old, had to set up his own household for the first time.

At first, Struensee kept himself in the background as he began to control the political machine.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Neither was he very powerful of build.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

he was very thirsty, but he must observe water discipline.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

It was very widely read, too ; ;

She was now enjoying the voyage very much.

Ann was very troubled.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.