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239The Expeditio litteraria ad Polum Arcticum “Royal stamp” that protected Hell and Sajnovics while in Denmark–Norway also secured them collaboration from virtually every core member of the Royal Society of Copenhagen. This is evident from the concluding chapter of Sajno- vics’s Demonstratio, where numerous savants who had contributed to his stud- ies by lending him books and offering other sorts of assistance are singled out and thanked. Not surprisingly, Thott was the dedicatee of both editions of the Demonstratio. In December 1770, however, in the aftermath of a coup staged by Christian vii’s personal physician Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737–72), Thott was forced to resign from all his offices.92 By the time the orthographic reform was propagated in the second edition of the Demonstratio, the initiative had lost its chief patron in Copenhagen, and was dropped. Finally, frequent anticipations of the Expeditio litteraria also serve to associ- ate the Demonstratio more closely with Hell. A newly introduced sentence by Sajnovics in the 1771 edition is either an innocently polite gesture toward the strong man of the expedition, or an all too unconcealed acknowledgment of the ongoing process of appropriation: “Reverend Father Hell is treating the present little work with benevolence, as if it were his own [italics added] and will publish it for the third time inserted in his Expeditio litteraria.”93 The 1771 edition also contains specific information about some of the planned content of the larger work, and a part of this, again, can be traced back to direct instruc- tion by Hell, this time in another draft, also to be sent to Sajnovics in Trnava during the winter of 1770–71: Moreover, in the same work (as I learned from the same letter of Father Hell’s, recently sent to me from Vienna), he will not only demonstrate the common origin of each of the two peoples, that is, the Hungarians and the Lapps; he will also, by means of weighty evidence, show that the Fen- ni, or Finns, are the ancestors of all the various tribes that use the Hun- garian language, and especially that the ancient fatherland of that most noble Hungarian tribe, which inhabits Hungary, was Carjelia, and that Johannes Sajnovicsin ‘Expeditio litteraria ad Polum arcticum’ ja suomalais-ugrilaisen kielentutkimuksen synty,” in Lapin tuhat tarinaa, ed. Osmo Pekonen and Johan Stén (Ranua: Mäntykustannus, 2012), 65–86. 92 The same happened to another supporter of the two Jesuits, the foreign minister Bern- storff. It seems Struensee’s coup even brought an end to Danish participation in projects of international science; cf. Allan Sortkær, “Hvilken fortræffelig gave fra den danske na- tion til videnskaben! Fremkomsten af internationale videnskabelige ekspeditioner i 1700-tallet,” Den Jyske Historiker, special issue, “Danske Videnskabelige Ekspeditioner,” 119 (2008): 5–25, esp. 21–23. 93 Sajnovics, Demonstratio (1771), 55.