When Kirstine Pedersdatter was born in 1741, in Svaneke, Bornholm, Denmark, her father, Peder Hansen Jørgensen Kofoed, was 34 and her mother, Margrethe Elisabeth Hansdatter Marcher, was 19. She married Peder Kofoed on 3 December 1766, in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 9 November 1771, in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, at the age of 30.
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The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is a non-governmental science Academy founded in 1742 for the purpose of advancements of science in Denmark.
Hirschholm Palace was a royal palace located in present-day Horsholm municipality just north of Copenhagen. It was one of the finest buildings of its time and became known as the Versailles of the North. It developed a bad reputation in connection with its role in the affair between Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Mathilda in the 1770s. After that it fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1809.
The Old City Hall was built in 1762 and served as the city hall until 1912. the Hall was modelled after the City Hall that was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire in 1795. Today the building is used only for ceremonial and representative purposes.
Mainly U.S.: fanciful respelling of Christine , under the influence of Kristina .
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