page_title: Amaliegade 12
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Amaliegade 12 / History
caption_attribution_description: Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow, Prime minister and reformer
context_page_description: Amaliegade 12 is a historic property in the Frederiksstaden Quarter of central Copenhagen, Denmark. Count Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow lived in the building when he was appointed to Prime Minister in 179 and it has also housed the American diplomatic mission to Denmark. The law firm Moltje-Leth Advokater is now based in the building.
context_section_description: Amaliegade 12 was built in 1753-55 by Nicolai Eigtved  for the timber merchant Dittleff Lindenhoff. Eigtved had also created the overall plan for the new Frederiksstaden district just a few years earlier.
   
  Adam Wilhelm Hauch, a military officer who was appointed to chamberlain that same year, acquired the building in 1782. He lived in the house until 1785 and went on a longer journey in Europe the following year. The building then served as the city residence of count Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow until 1811. He was also the owner of Christianssæde and Pederstrup on Lolland, played a central role in the Danish agricultural reforms of the 1780s and 1790s and was appointed to Minister of the State in 1797. 
  Notables who have lived in the building for shorter periods of time include the painter Christian Albrecht Jensen (1825), the economist C. G. N. David (1830-31), count Frederik Marcus (1845) and the politician Carl Emil Bardenfleth  (1852).
  The building later hosted the American diplomatic mission in Copenhagen.
caption: Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow
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