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PIPER, CARL, COUNT (1647-1716)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 635 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
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
 , 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
 , in 1702 appointed
chancellor
  of
Upsala
  University, and during the first half of the
Great
  Northern War, as the
chief
  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
  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
  should at least be fairly considered, but his master was always immovable. Piper's career came to an end at
Poltava
  (1709), where he was among the prisoners. The last years of his life were spent in
exile
  in Russia. He died at Schliisselburg on the 29th of May 1716.
See W. L. Svedelius,
Count
  Carl Piper (Stockholm, 1869).
(R. N. B.)


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