Talk:Johann Friedrich Struensee
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[edit] NPOV?
This article is quite biased - extremely negative and with a quite exaggerated language, especially from chapter "Rise to power" onwards. For example the following quote:
"The dictator's manners were even worse than his morals, He habitually adopted a tone of insulting superiority, all the more irritating as coming from an ill-informed foreigner; and sometimes he seemed deliberately to go out of his way to shock the most sacred feelings of the respectable people. Nor was this all. His system of retrenchment, on which he particularly prided himself, was in the last degree immoral and hypocritical, for while reducing the number of the public officials, or clipping down their salaries to starvation points, he squandered thousands upon balls, masquerades, and other amusements of the court, and induced the imbecile king to present him and his friend Brandt with 60,000 rix-dollars apiece."'
I hope someone with more historical knowledge can turn this into neutral point of view. esmi 13:09, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- I tend to agree. It's an interesting article and a good start, but it could use some editing and citations. --Glitterspray 16:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- I inserted a NPOV/disputed box - this section needs a rewrite by someone who knows the period and is willing write about it in a more unbiased way. --Agger 08:23, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Neutrality is disputable
This article reflects a totally different view from Enquist in his book "Livlakarens Besok". I suggest the editor put out a "Neutrality Disputed" warning. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.229.40.121 (talk) 18:13, 6 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Language propaganda
"He was hampered, moreover, by not knowing a word of Danish." In that time it was very common that French was spoken at the Monarchs Court. That language assert is nothing but Danish nationalist propaganda against a great liberal reformer. -- grune45
[edit] Slander
"If, as we are assured, he publicly snubbed the queen, we may readily imagine how he treated common folk." -- grune45
[edit] The "Morality" issue
"The dictator's manners were worse than his morals" is not good form if you're aiming for neutrality. Also ridiculous, since Struensee was acting on behalf of a mentally unbalanced monarch "ordained by God", supposedly - benevolent or not, you can't get more dictatorial than an absolute monarch. This sounds like either Danish nationalist propaganda or (more likely) fanatical American religious conservative revisionist history with a Danish twist. This entire article needs to be rewritten. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.131.253 (talk) 18:07, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
- Danish nationalist propaganda shouldn't be blamed for this one. All that crap was copied straight from the 1911 version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Hemmingsen 16:28, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ove Høegh-Guldberg Biography Also Biased
I believe the same author wrote the biography on Ove Høegh-Guldberg, so the same neutrality red flag needs to be added to that biography as well. Could somebody check that one out as well, as I'm not sure how to do that?
[edit] Rewriting Urgently Needed
I agree with the previous comments on the obvious lack of neutrality here. This page is atrociously biased, and has a tone no historian would use. "The dictator's manner were worse than his morals" alone should make the whole page questionable but it is just one of many great flaws. WendyB12 20:33, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
