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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

1832 - 1901

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Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (18 November 1832 – 12 August 1901) 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). Born in the Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire, he was forced to move to Sweden in 1857 due to his political activity, where he became a member of the Parliament of Sweden and of the Swedish Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld has received more than 185,295 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is the 57th most popular explorer (down from 50th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Finland (down from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Explorer.

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is most famous for discovering the Northeast Passage from Europe to Asia.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 57 out of 498. Before him are Giovanni da Verrazzano, Ernest Shackleton, Diogo Cão, William Adams, Hanno the Navigator, and Giovanni Battista Belzoni. After him are John Smith, Henry Hudson, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Diogo Dias, Yaqut al-Hamawi, and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 14. Before him are Gustave Doré, Edward Burnett Tylor, Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, William Crookes, and Louisa May Alcott. After him are Jules Ferry, Ármin Vámbéry, George, King of Saxony, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Andrew Dickson White, and Osman Nuri Pasha. Among people deceased in 1901, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 11. Before him are Johanna Spyri, Benjamin Harrison, Arnold Böcklin, William McKinley, Milan I of Serbia, and Charles Hermite. After him are Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Li Hongzhang, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Abdur Rahman Khan, Gaetano Bresci, and Elisha Gray.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 21 out of 751. Before him are Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), Elias Lönnrot (1802), Mikael Agricola (1510), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), Risto Ryti (1889), and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861). After him are Vissarion Belinsky (1811), Arto Paasilinna (1942), Johan Gadolin (1760), Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), Ragnar Granit (1900), and Linus Torvalds (1969).

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Among EXPLORERS In Finland

Among explorers born in Finland, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 1. 

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