Died 1901-08-12.
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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron).
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culture · Finland-Swedish baron, geologist and explorer (1832–1901) · historian of cartography · cartographer · writer · geologist · geographer · arctic explorer · mineralogist · politician · botanist · aristocrat · also Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Nordensk., A. E. Nordenskioeld, Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskioeld, Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Adolf Nordenskiöld
Born 18 November 1832 · Died 12 August 1901 · Q156749
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1901· 1 entry
1900· 1 entry
Received the Murchison Medal from the Geological Society of London
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1893· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1893).
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Career landmark: seat 12 of the Swedish Academy (1893–1901).
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Nordenskiöld was elected to the 12th chair of the Swedish Academy
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1891· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Second Chamber (1891–1893).
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1883· 1 entry
Visited the east coast of Greenland for the second time, and succeeded in taking his ship through the great ice barrier, a feat attempted in vain during more than three centuries
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1881· 2 entries
Won Vega Medal (1881).
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Career landmark: member of the Second Chamber (1881–1887).
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1880· 8 entries
Awarded Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (1880).
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1880).
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Awarded Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations (1880).
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Awarded Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class (1880).
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Awarded grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1880).
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Awarded Commander of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (1880).
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1880).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (1880).
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1876· 1 entry
Nordenskiöld repeated the journey to the mouth of the Yenisei with the steamer Ymer to prove that this route was not dependent on unusually favourable ice conditions
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1875· 1 entry
Went to the Yenisei River in Siberia, on board the sloop Pröven, which he sent back while he went up the river in a boat and returned home by land
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1874· 1 entry
Awarded commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1874).
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1872· 1 entry
Nordenskiöld embarked on an expedition to reach the North Pole using reindeer
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1871· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1871).
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1870· 2 entries
Visited Greenland to find out whether using sledge dogs was advisable for a polar expedition
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Career landmark: member of the Second Chamber (1870–1872).
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1869· 2 entries
Won Founder’s Medal (1869).
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Awarded Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1869).
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1868· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Polar Star (1868).
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On the schooner-rigged iron steamer Sofia, he went farther north than any vessel had ever been in the Eastern Hemisphere
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1867· 1 entry
1870, 1872 and 1875, led him to attempt the discovery of the long-sought Northeast Passage
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1864· 1 entry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences placed Nordenskiöld in command of the schooner Axel Thordsen to complete the meridian arc survey
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1863· 1 entry
Married Anna Maria Mannerheim, the aunt of Marshal C
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1862· 2 entries
Was one of the founding members of Sällskapet Idun, a men's association founded in Stockholm
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Career landmark: member of the Riksdag of the Estates (1862–1866).
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1861· 1 entry
Took part in Torell's second Svalbard expedition on board the Æolus
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1858· 1 entry
Nordenskiöld took part in Torell's first expedition to Svalbard in the sloop Frithiof
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1857· 2 entries
Aroused the suspicion of the authorities again, so that he was forced to leave Finland, practically as a political refugee, and was deprived of the right of ever holding office in the university of Finland
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Due to his political activity, where he became a member of the Parliament of Sweden and of the Swedish Academy
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1856· 2 entries
Nordenskiöld was also appointed Docent in Mineralogy at the university
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Obtained a travelling stipend from the university in Helsinki and planned to expend it in geological research in Siberia and Kamchatka
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1855· 1 entry
Drew the attention of the Imperial Russian authorities to his political views, and led to a dismissal from the university
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1853· 1 entry
Nordenskiöld accompanied his father to the Ural Mountains and studied the iron and copper mines at Tagilsk; on his return he received minor appointments both at the university and the mining office
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1849· 1 entry
Where he studied mathematics, geology, and applied himself especially to chemistry and mineralogy
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1832· 2 entries
Born 1832-11-18.
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In Helsinki, the capital of Finland, but he spent his early youth on the family estate, the Frugård Manor, located in the Numminen village in Mäntsälä
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1831· 1 entry
In Hässleby, Sweden) and Anna Elisabet Sofia Nordenskiöld (born in 1841 in Finland), who was the sister of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
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