Nordenskiöld (surname)
Encyclopedia
Nordenskiöld or Nordenskjöld can refer to a number of Finland-Swedish
or Swedish
people (many of them related):
Finland-Swedish
Finland Swedish is a general term for the closely related cluster of dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland by Swedish-speaking Finns as their mother tongue...
or Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
people (many of them related):
- August NordenskiöldAugust NordenskiöldAugust Nordenskiöld or Nordenskjöld was a Finnish-Swedish alchemist and Swedenborgian critic of slavery....
, alchemist - Nils Gustaf NordenskiöldNils Gustaf NordenskiöldNils Gustaf Nordenskiöld was a Finnish mineralogist and a traveller. He was the father of explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.-Life:...
, mineralogist and traveller - Adolf Erik NordenskiöldAdolf Erik NordenskiöldFreiherr Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , also known as A. E. Nordenskioeld was a Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and arctic explorer of Finnish-Swedish origin. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists...
, (1832–1901) scientist and explorer, son of Nils Gustaf - Gustaf NordenskiöldGustaf NordenskiöldGustaf Nordenskiöld , Swedish scholar of Finnish descent, a member of the Nordenskiöld family of scientists and the eldest son of polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and Anna Maria Mannerheim...
, scholar, son of Adolf Erik - Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskiöld, explorer and geographer, nephew of Adolf Nordenskiöld
- Anders Johan Nordenskiöld, soldier http://runeberg.org/sbh/b0197.html
- Otto Henrik Nordenskiöld, soldier http://runeberg.org/sbh/b0198.html
- Carl Fredrik Nordenskiöld (soldier) b. 1702, soldier http://runeberg.org/sbh/b0197.html
- Carl Fredrik Nordenskiöld (writer), b. 1756, writer and mystic http://runeberg.org/sbh/b0198.html
- Otto Gustaf Nordenskiöld, soldier http://runeberg.org/sbh/b0199.html
- Carl Reinhold Nordenskiöld, soldier http://runeberg.org/sbh/b0199.html
- Erland NordenskiöldErland NordenskiöldBaron Nils Erland Herbert Nordenskiöld was a Finnish-Swedish archeologist and anthropologist. He was born in Stockholm, the son of N. A. E. Nordenskiöld...
, archeologist and anthropologist, son of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
See also
- The National Biography of FinlandKansallisbiografiaSuomen Kansallisbiografia is a collection of 6,000 biographies of individuals and families who have made important contributions to the development of Finnish society.- From the time of the Swedish era :Adlercreutz, ,Aeimelaeus,...
- Swedish-speaking Finns