Hans Schack, 6th Count of Schackenborg

Hans Schack, Count of Schackenborg (6 May 1786 – 4 April 1814) was a Danish aristocrat. He was the sixth holder of the Countship of Schackenborg from 1809 to 1814 with the title of enfeoffed count (Danish: lensgreve).

Hans Schack
6th Count of Schackenborg
Count of Schackenborg
Tenure18 August 1809 – 4 April 1814
PredecessorOtto Didrik Schack
SuccessorOtto Didrik Schack
Full name
Hans Schack
Born(1786-05-06)6 May 1786
Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark
Died4 April 1814(1814-04-04) (aged 27)
Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark
Noble familySchack
Spouse(s)Countess Louise Frederikke Lerche
Issue
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FatherOtto Didrik Schack, 5th Count of Schackenborg
MotherAmalie Magdalene Christiane Caroline von Krogh

Biography

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Schackenborg Castle, photographed in 2006.
 
Schackenborg Castle, front from east side (2023)

Hans Schack was born on 4 April 1786 in Copenhagen in the Kingdom of Denmark. Born into the noble family of Schack, he was the second child and only son of the Danish nobleman and civil servant Otto Didrik Schack, and his first wife Amalie Magdalene Christiane Caroline von Krogh.[1]

At the death of his father on 18 August 1809, he inherited the Countship of Schackenborg and assumed the title of enfeoffed count.[1]

Count Schack died already on 4 April 1814, aged just 27, in Copenhagen in the Kingdom of Denmark.[1] He was succeeded as Count of Schackenborg by his eldest surviving son, Otto Didrik Schack.[citation needed]

Family

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Count Schack married in 1810 Countess Louise Frederikke Lerche, daughter of Dano-Norwegian aristocrat and civil servant Christian Cornelius Lerche, 1st Count of Lerchenborg and Ulrikke Sophie von Levetzow, by whom he had two children.[2]

  • Otto Didrik Schack, who succeeded him as 7th Count of Schackenborg (1810–1856)
  • Countess Sophie Schack (1812–1817)
  • stillborn daughter (1813)

Notes and references

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Bibliography

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  • Danmarks Adels Aarbog 1932 (PDF). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz. 1932.
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Danish nobility
Preceded by Count of Schackenborg
1809–1814
Succeeded by