Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

Baron (Nils) Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, also known as A. E. Nordenskioeld (November 18, 1832, Helsinki, Finland (then the Grand Duchy of Finland) — August 12, 1901, (Dalby, Skåne, Sweden) was a geologist, mineralogist and arctic explorer of Finland-Swedish extraction. Born in Finland, he was later forced to live in political exile in Sweden. He is most remembered for the Vega expedition along the northern coast of Europe and Asia. He was also the uncle of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.

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November 18 - 1832 - Helsinki - Finland - Grand Duchy of Finland - August 12 - 1901 - Dalby, Skåne, Sweden - Geologist - Mineralogist - Arctic - Explorer - Finland-Swedish - Sweden - Vega - Europe - Asia - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

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Nordenskiöld was born in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, but he spent his early youth on the family estate in Mäntsälä. He went to school in Porvoo, a small town on the south coast of Finland. He studied mathematics, chemistry, mineralogy, and geology and gained his masters degree in 1853 at the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki, and published two years later his dissertation Om grafitens och chondroditens kristallformer (On the crystal forms of the graphite and chondrodite).

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Helsinki - Mäntsälä - Porvoo - Mathematics - Chemistry - Mineralogy - Geology - 1853 - Imperial Alexander University - Dissertation - Graphite - Chondrodite

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In 1856, Nordenskiöld was appointed Docent in Mineralogy at the university. However, for political reasons he had to flee in the following year to Sweden, where he was called to the office of Director of the Mineralogical Department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History and to a professorship in Mineralogy at the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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1856 - Docent - Swedish Museum of Natural History - Professor - Swedish Academy of Sciences

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The A.E. Nordenskiöld Collection of maps is located at the University of Helsinki, and it is included in the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO.

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University of Helsinki - Memory of the World Register - UNESCO

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