See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

COUNT VON ANDERS JOHAN See also:

• COUNT VON ANDERS JOHAN HOPKEN (1712—1789)

HOPKEN (1712—1789)  , See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish statesman, was the son of See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

Daniel Niklas See also:

• HOPKEN, ANDERS JOHAN, COUNT VON (1712—1789)

Hopken, one of Arvid See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

Horn's most determined opponents and a founder of the See also:

• HAT

Hat party . When in 1738 the Hats came into See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power the younger Hopken obtained a seat in the See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee of the See also:

• DIET

diet, and during the Finnish See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of 1741—42 was one of the two commissioners appointed to negotiate with See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia . During the diet of 1746—1747 Hopken's See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence was of the greatest importance . It was chiefly through his efforts that the estates issued a " See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• DECLARATION (from Lat. declarare, to make fully clear, clams)

declaration " protesting against the arrogant attitude of the See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador, who attempted to dominate the See also:

• CROWN

crown See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince See also:

• ADOLPHUS, JOHN LEYCESTER (1795-1862)

Adolphus See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick and the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . This spirited policy restored the waning See also:

• PRESTIGE

prestige of the Hat party and firmly established their See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-See also:

• MUSCOVITE

Muscovite See also:

• SYSTEM

system . In 1746 Hopken was created a senator . In 1751 he succeeded Gustaf See also:

• TESSIN, CARL GUSTAF, COUNT (1695-1770)

Tessin as See also:

• PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, and controlled the See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign policy of See also:

• SWEDEN
• SWEDEN [Sverige]
• SWEDEN, NORWAY AND

Sweden for the next nine years . On the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, he contracted an armed See also:

• NEUTRALITY

neutrality treaty with See also:

• DENMARK
• DENMARK (Danmark)

Denmark (1756); but in the..following See also:

• YEAR

year acceded to the See also:

• LEAGUE

league against Frederick II. of See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia . During the crisis of 1760-1762, when the Hats were at last compelled to. give an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of their stewardship, Hopken was sacrificed to party exigencies and retired from the See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate as well as from the premier-See also:

• SHIP

ship . On the 22nd of See also:

• JUNE

June 1762, however, he was created a See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count . After the revolution of 1772 he re-entered the senate at the particular See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request of Gustavus III., but no longer exercised any See also:

• POLITICAL

political influence . His See also:

• CAUSTIC (Gr. rcavvraubs, burning)

caustic See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism of many of the royal See also:

• MEASURES

measures, moreover, gave See also:

• GREAT

great offence, and in 1780 he retired into private See also:

• LIFE

life .

Hopken was a distinguished author . The See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of his See also:

• BIOGRAPHIES

biographies and orations has earned for him the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of, the Swedish See also:

• TACITUS, CORNELIUS (c. 55-120)
• TACITUS, MARCUS CLAUDIUS

Tacitus . He helped to found the Vclenskaps Akademi, and when Gustavus III. in 1786 See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in it . See L . G. de Geer, Minne of Grefve A . J. von Hopken (See also:

• STOCKHOLM

Stockholm, 1882); Carl Silfverstolpe, Grefve Hopkens Skrifter (Stockholm, 189o-1893) . (R . N .