Struensee was born in 1738 in present day Germany and educated in Prussia, a doctor by trade and a budding Enlightenment political writer by practice.
His friend and sometime cohort Enevold Brandt (Danish Wikipedia entry) was put on the block on the same day. Such was the course that ended the rise of Johann Friedrich Struensee on this date in 1772. That is, of course, as long as you didn’t also try to usurp the crown, undermine the aristocracy, and agitate the commoners while you were at it. The 1700s were a time of radical reform, and as the Enlightenment reached the shores of Denmark, it suddenly became possible to be a professed atheist and not lose your head.
1772: Johann Friedrich Struensee, the doctor who ran Denmark
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