David Alopaeus
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Count Frans David von Alopaeus (also Alopeus; December 19, 1769 – June 13, 1831) was a Russian diplomat from the Finnish Alopaeus noble family.
Biography
[edit]Born into the Finnish noble Alopaeus family in Viborg,[1] he followed his older brother Maximilian von Alopaeus into a diplomatic career. He was enrolled at the Military Academy in Stuttgart from 1781 to 1785. He studied at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen. He was the Imperial Russian ambassador to Stockholm from 1803, and took part in the negotiations for the Peace of Fredrickshamn in 1809. He was granted a title of Count along with the coat of arms in 1820 in Congress Poland for his negotiations on Congress Poland's borders with Kingdom of Prussia.
References
[edit]- ↑ Meissner, Boris; Eisfeld, Alfred (1999). Der Beitrag der Deutschbalten und der städtischen Russlanddeutschen zur Entwicklung des Russischen Reiches von der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg (in German). Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik. p. 148. ISBN 978-3-8046-8860-5.
Sources
[edit]- . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
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