Count Frans David Alopaeus (also ''Alopeus'') (December 19, 1769 in

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– June 13, 1831 in Berlin) was an Imperial Russian diplomat.

Biography

Born into the Finnish noble Alopaeus family, he followed his older brother Maximilian von Alopaeus into a diplomatic career. He was enrolled at the

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in Stuttgart from 1781 to 1785. He studied at the Georg-August-Universität in

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. 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

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along with the

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in 1820 in Congress Poland for his negotiations on Congress Poland's borders with

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Frans David Alopaeus
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alopaeus, David 1769 births 1831 deaths Diplomats from Vyborg University of Göttingen alumni Ambassadors of Russia to Sweden Counts of Poland Finnish expatriates in Sweden Finnish people from the Russian Empire