A Business Encyclopedia – or Harnessing the Power of Selfishness for a Common Good

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For the vast majority of the hundreds of merchants and trading officers of the Danish Asiatic Company, their history is shrouded in darkness with only scattered pieces of information, which makes it difficult to get an overview of the mercantile landscape in Copenhagen and the rest of the Oldenburg Monarchy.

To help attain such an overview, a Business Encyclopedia of the Oldenburg Monarchy has been created as part of this project in the shape of a wiki . Here, a page can be published for each business person and other relevant persons to collect information about their life and work from a number of diverse sources.

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