accountant governor overseer private secretary statesman
Gabel Kristoffer was born on the 6th of January 1617 in Glückstadt, Germany. His father, Wulbern, originally a cartographer and subsequently recorder of Gliickstadt, was killed at the siege of that fortress by the German Imperial Army in 1628. Mother's name was Anna von Horn. Wife's name was Ermegaard Badenhaupt.
Christoffer Gabel received a university education.
In 1639 he was the overseer and accountant at the court of the Archbishop of Bremen, Duke Frederick. In 1648, when the duke ascended the Danish throne as King Frederick III of Denmark, Gabel followed him to Copenhagen as his private secretary. In 1658, during the brief interval of peace between King Charles X's first and second attack upon Denmark, Gabel was employed in several secret missions to Sweden. In 1660 he was the chief intermediary between Frederick III and the Conjoined Estates. As a result absolutism was established in Denmark. On this occasion he was ennobled by the king, and in 1664 he was made governor of Copenhagen.
After Frederick III died, in February 1670, the new ruler, Christian V, dismissed him on the 18th of April 1670. At the same time he was left with the financial control of the Faroe Islands.
He was a Christian.
He was a known proponent of the absolutism.
