PIPER, CARL, COUNT (1647-1716)

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PIPER, CARL, COUNT (1647-1716) , Swedish statesman, was born at Stockholm on the 29th of July 1647. He entered the foreign office after completing his academical course at

Upsala

UPSALA, or UPPSALA

, accompanied Benedict Oxenstjerna on his embassage to Russia in 1673, and attracted the attention of Charles XI. during the Scanian War by his extraordinary energy and ability. In 1679 he was appointed secretary to the board of

trade

and ennobled. In 1689 he was made one of the secretaries of state, and Charles XI. recommended him on his deathbed to his son and successor, Charles XII. Piper became the most confidential of the new sovereign's ministers. In 1697 he was made a senator and set over domestic affairs while still retaining his state-secretaryship. In 1688 he was created a

count

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

, in 1702 appointed

chancellor

CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

Upsala

UPSALA, or UPPSALA

University, and during the first half of the

Great

GREAT

Northern War, as the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of Charles's perambulating chancellery, he was practically prime minister. It was his misfortune, however, to be obliged to support a system which was not his
own. He belonged to the school of Benedict Oxenstjerna and was therefore an avowed advocate of a pacific policy. He protested in vain against nearly all the military ventures of Charles NIL, e.g. the War of Deposition against

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

of Saxony and Poland, the invasion of Saxony, the raid into the Ukraine. Again and again he insisted that the pacific overtures of Peter the

Great

GREAT

should at least be fairly considered, but his master was always immovable. Piper's career came to an end at

Poltava

POLTAVA

(1709), where he was among the prisoners. The last years of his life were spent in

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

in Russia. He died at Schliisselburg on the 29th of May 1716.
See W. L. Svedelius,

Count

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

Carl Piper (Stockholm, 1869).
(R. N. B.)

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