Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna

Count Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna-Carwinden
Count Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna-Carwinden
	The family home, Schloss Carwinden ca 1860; destroyed in 1945
Born	4 June 1628; Delft, Dutch Republic
Died	31 May 1668 (aged 39); London
Buried	Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden
Allegiance	Swedish Empire
Service/branch	Swedish Army
Years of service	1652–1666
Rank	Field Marshal
Battles/wars	Thirty Years War; • Siege of Hulst (1645); Second Northern War (1655–1660); Swedish War with Bremen (1666);
Other work	Swedish envoy in The Hague and London (1667–68)

Count and Burgrave Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna-Carwinden (German: Christoph Delphicus Graf und Burggraf zu Dohna-Carwinden, Swedish: greve Kristofer Delphicus af Dohna; 4 June 1628 – 21 May 1668) was a German-born soldier and diplomat.

His family came from Carwinden, then in Brandenburg-Prussia, now part of modern Poland, but he was born in the Dutch Republic and spent much of his life in the service of the Swedish Empire. Appointed Field Marshal in 1666, he helped negotiate the 1667 Treaty of Breda and the 1668 Triple Alliance, the first in a series of attempts to contain French expansion under Louis XIV.

He died in London on 31 May 1668 and later buried in Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden.

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