Frédéric de Coninck
Frédéric de Coninck.
Frédéric de Coninck (2 December 1740, The Hague – 4 September 1811, Dronninggaard) was a Dutch merchant active in Copenhagen, 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 to boost his and its trade, but his company got into difficulties during and after the English Wars, having to shut down in 1822.
In the 1790s he had a house built — De Coninck House — that still stands in Copenhagen.
His daughter Marie Henriette married the Danish merchant Christian Vilhelm Duntzfelt. Their great-grandson was the American doctor Henry Jacques Garrigues.[1]
de Coninck ships
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- 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.
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