Frederic de Coninck was a Dutch merchant active in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, to which he moved in 1763 to set up a foreign trade and shipping company. He became one of Denmark's largest shipping owners, with a fleet of 64 vessels at the company's height. He took advantage of Denmark's neutrality in the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

 to boost his and its trade, but his company got into difficulties during and after the English Wars

English Wars (Scandinavia)

The English Wars were a series of conflicts between Sweden and Denmark-Norway as part of the Napoleonic Wars. It is named after the most prominent region of its other main participant, the United Kingdom, which declared war on Denmark-Norway due to disagreements over the neutrality of Danish trade...

, having to shut down in 1822.

External links

• Frédéric de Coninck og Dronninggaard : en mosaik af tekster og billeder / [udgivet af] Jens B. Friis-Hansen og Finn Slente. 1987. ISBN 87-87113-74-0
• Joan Harders: Frederic de Coninck : en omstridt forretningsmand fra den florissante handelstid. I: Erhvervshistorisk årbog. Bind 38 (1988). Side 106-141.
• Helge Krausing: De sigtede bag tiltalen ved Højesteret for landsforrædderi under englændernes belejring af København i 1807. I: Krigshistorisk tidsskrift. Årgang 35, nr. 2 (1999). Side 28-31.
• Eva Cater: Mageløs oplevelse. Interview med Tom Sjørup. I: Berlingske tidende. 2001-01-24.
• Torsten Søgaard: Marie de Conincks dagbøger 1793-1815. I: Søllerødbogen. 2007. Side 7-53.
• Peter Henningsen: Patrioterne i Lyngby : en liden fortælling om handlinger så ædle og uegennyttige, at det turde være løgn. Nordsjælland 1807. I: Fortid og nutid. 2007, hæfte 4. Side 243-262.