During the Struense affair, he both served as prosecutor in the trial against the queen and as defense attorney for Enevold Brandt.
1784 saw him promoted to general prosecutor (generalprokurør) and in 1788 he was appointed as president of Hof- og Stadsretten.
The report was simultaneously published in print as Treatise on the Peasant Estate and (Afhandling om Bondestanden) provoked a number of fierce attacks from reform opponents.
She was the daughter of lawyer and poet Frederik Horn ((1708–81) and Jeanne Antoinette Greben (died 1742).
The eldest son Niels Banf owned the estates Benzonsdal and Sparresholm..[2] His younger brother Balthasar Band was a playwright.
[3] Their sister Antoinette Frederikke de Bang married the lawyer Freiherr Christian Ulrich Detlev von Eggers.