Alopaeus
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Alopaeus is a Finnish family, originating from Vyborg
. Some family members have fennicize
d the name to Kettunen or Tuomas-Kettunen.
Notable family members include:
Vyborg
Vyborg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, to the northwest of St. Petersburg and south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland...
. Some family members have fennicize
Fennicize
Fennicization or finnicization is the changing of one's personal names from other languages into Finnish...
d the name to Kettunen or Tuomas-Kettunen.
- Johan Alopaeus (1731 - 1811), ennobledSwedish nobilityThe Swedish nobility were historically a legally and/or socially privileged class in Sweden, part of the so-called frälse . Today, the nobility is still very much a part of Swedish society but they do not maintain many of their former privileges...
in 1772 with the name Nordensvan - Maximilian von AlopeusMaximilian von AlopeusBaron Maximilian von Alopaeus a Russian diplomat, born at Vyborg in Finland, and educated at Turku, afterwards at Göttingen, was intended for the ecclesiastical profession, but his employment as secretary by Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian ambassador at the Swedish court, was the first step...
(1748—1822), Russian diplomat - Frans David AlopaeusDavid AlopaeusCount Frans David Alopaeus was an Imperial Russian diplomat. 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...
(1769—1831), his brother, also a diplomat - Fredrik Alopaeus (1810 - 1862), Finnish general in Imperial Russian ArmyImperial Russian ArmyThe Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...
, son of David - Maunu Jaakko Alopaeus, Bishop of Porvoo 1809-1818
- Carl Henrik Alopaeus, Bishop of Porvoo 1885-1892
- Erik Alopaeus, first Finnish Parliamentary OmbudsmanParliamentary OmbudsmanThe Parliamentary Ombudsman is the principal ombudsman authority in Finland, in Sweden and Iceland, charged with the supervision of the public authorities...
in 1920 - Marianne Alopaeus (b. 1918), Finnish author