Brock, Niels

Born 1731-3-19 in Randers, died 1802-10-4

Family
Father: Brock, Rasmus (BioLek I)

Mother: Knudsen, Marie Kirstine (BioLek I)

Wife: Bredahl, Lene (BioLek I) [BA: Several Bredahls sailed on DAC ships. A connection?]

Timeline
Spend two years of his youth in a trade institute in Lübeck. (BioLek I).

1763 - Citizenship as Grosserer in Copenhagen, trading wine, Asiatic goods and much more. Co-director of Frideriksborgs Salpeter=Werk. (Holck: Dannemarcks Handels=Speil 1766:67)

1766 - Revisores in Almindeligt Handelskompagni. (Holck: Dannemarcks Handels=Speil 1766:56)

1772 - Listed as subscribent, i.e. contributor, to a reprint of Ludvig Holberg’s comic epos Peder Paars, where he is listed as "grosserer" (Holberg, Peder Paars, 1772)

1790 - Listed as a member of the Naturhistorie=Selskabet. (Skrivter af Naturhistorie=Selskabet, 1790)

At his death in 1802, his fortune amounted to 865,000 rigsdaler. (BioLek I)