REVELSTOKE, town, British Columbia, on the Columbia river and a divisional station on the Canadian Pacific railway, 381 M. E. of Vancouver. Pop. (1931) 2,736. It is the supply centre for a mining and lumbering district, with railway shops. REVENTLOW, CHRISTIAN DITLEV FREDERICK, COUNT (1748-1827), Danish statesman and reformer, born on March 11, 1748, was educated at SOro and Leipzig, and made an extensive tour of western Europe to study economic conditions before he returned to Denmark in 1770. In 1774 he held a high position in the Kammerkollegiet, or board of trade, two years later he entered the Department of Mines, and in 1781 he was a member of the Overskattedirectionen, or chief taxing board.
In 1784, he was placed at the head of the Rentekammeret, which took cognisance of everything relating to agriculture. He appointed a small agricultural commission to better the condi tion of the crown serfs, and amongst other things enable them to turn their leaseholds into freeholds.
Reventlow induced the Crown Prince Frederick, in July 1786, to appoint a grand commission to take the condition of all the peasantry in the kingdom into immediate consideration. This agricultural commission resulted in a series of reforms of the highest importance. The ordinance of June 8, 1787, modified
the existing leaseholds, greatly to the advantage of the peasantry; the ordinance of June 20, 1788, abolished villenage and com pletely transformed the much-abused hoveri system whereby the feudal tenant was bound to cultivate his lord's land as well as his own; and the ordinance of Dec. 6, 1799, did away with hoveri altogether. Reventlow also started public credit banks enabling small cultivators to borrow money on favourable terms.
But the financial distress of Denmark, the jealousy of the duchies, the ruinous political complications of the Napoleonic period, and, above all, the Crown Prince Frederick's growing jealousy of his official advisers, prevented Reventlow from com pleting his reforms. On Dec. 7, 1813, he was dismissed, and retired to his estates in Laaland, where he died on Oct. II, 1827.
See Adolph Frederik Bergsi5e, Grey. C. D. F. Reventlows Virksomhed (Copenhagen, 1837) ; Louis Theodor Alfred Bobe, Efterl. Papirer fra den Reventlowske Familiekreds (Copenhagen,