page_title: Niels Lunde Reiersen
section_title: Merchant and industrialist
hierarchical_section_title: Niels Lunde Reiersen / Merchant and industrialist
caption_attribution_description: English: The ship Roepstorff . It sailed on the East Indies in 1781-83 under the command of captain Lorentzen and with Fr. de Coninck and N.C. Reiersen as owners.
context_page_description: Niels Lunde Reiersen was a Danish government official, merchant, silk manufacturer, landowner and philanthropist. He was the owner of the Royal Danish Silk Manufactury in Copenhagen as well as a founding partner of the leading trading firm De Coninck & Reiersen. He owned Nysø Manor, Oremandsgaard Manor and Lilliendal Manor as well as the estates at Jungshoved and Høfdinggård on Southern Zealand.
context_section_description: In early 1775, Reiersen acquired the Royal Danish Silk Manufactury  (Den Kongelige Silkemanufaktur) of which his father had become a co-owner in 1760. In 1786, Hans Brandorph joined him as partner.
  In 1775–90,  he joined Dutch merchant  Frédéric de Coninck  (1740–1811) as a partner in the trading firm  De Coninck & Reiersen. The company took over the remains of the Baltic-Guinea Company (Det det Østersøisk-Guineiske Kompagni in 1787.
caption: De Coninck & Reiersen's ship Roepstorff, c. 1780
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