Nordenskiöld (surname)
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Nordenskiöld or Nordenskjöld can refer to a number of Finland-Swedish
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 Nordenskiöld
    August Nordenskiöld
    August Nordenskiöld or Nordenskjöld was a Finnish-Swedish alchemist and Swedenborgian critic of slavery....

    , alchemist
  • Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld
    Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld
    Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld was a Finnish mineralogist and a traveller. He was the father of explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.-Life:...

    , mineralogist and traveller
  • Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
    Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
    Freiherr 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 Nordenskiöld
    Gustaf Nordenskiöld
    Gustaf 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 Nordenskiöld
    Erland Nordenskiöld
    Baron 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 Finland
    Kansallisbiografia
    Suomen 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
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