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| 1671 births | |
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| 1730 deaths | |
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For much of Frederik IV's reign Denmark was engaged in the and Fredensborg Palace , which both became monuments for the closure of the Great Northern War . During the years after the war trade and culture were flowering. The Danish theatre was created and the great dramatist Ludvig Holberg began his career. Also the colonisation of Greenland was started by the missionary Hans Egede . Politically this period was marked by the king's connection to the Holstein Reventlow family, the relatives of his last queen and by his growing suspicion towards all members of the old nobility. Frederick was considered a man of responsibility and industry – often regarded the most intelligent of all Danish absolute monarchs - and he seems to have possessed the ability of keeping independent of his ministers. Taking absolutely no interest in academic knowledge he was nevertheless a man of cultural engagement, especially in art and architecture. His main weaknesses were probably pleasure-seeking and womanising (he is the only Danish king who is known to have been twice a Bigamist ) that sometimes distracted him. His last years were affected by his weak health and private sorrows that made him leaning towards Pietism which triumphed during the reign of his son. His most important domestic reform was the abolishing which had fallen on the peasants of Zealand in the later Middle Ages . However, all was in vain because of the introduction of Adscription in 1733 . During the rule of Frederick of 1711 and the great Fire of October 1728 which destroyed most of the medieval capital. One of the unfortunate consequences of this fire was the destruction of the notes and observations of the astronomer Ole Rømer , who had managed to convince Frederick to introduce the Gregorian Calendar in Denmark-Norway in 1700 . On his passing in 1730, Frederick IV was interred in Roskilde Cathedral .
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