Early modern period

Broad intellectual movement emphasizing reason, scientific inquiry and criticism of inherited institutions, especially influential in eighteenth-century Europe and the Atlantic world.

A Danish officer of Mecklenburg background whose mid-eighteenth-century proposals helped advance attempts to cultivate the heathlands of Jutland.

The Danish peninsula containing the heathlands targeted for cultivation and settlement.

A major heathland area in central Jutland associated with eighteenth-century Danish land-improvement and settlement efforts.