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Peter Fjeldsted Hoppe

Danish civil servant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ16423651 ↗
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Peter Fjeldsted Hoppe (14 August 1794 – 23 May 1848) was a Danish civil servant who served as Governor of Iceland (1824–1829).

Hoppe was the son of Johann Christopher Hoppe, a naval officer and chamberlain, and his wife Johanne Magdalene Fjeldsted, daughter of Þorkell Fjeldsted, Governor of Norway. His brother was Torkil Abraham Hoppe, governor of Iceland from 1841 to 1847.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Fjeldsted Hoppe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.