Birger Lindberg

Birger Barnabas Lindberg ( November 25, 1876 in Vyborg - January 6, 1940 in The Hague ) was a Finnish mining engineer and writer .

Birger Lindberg with two companions on safari in German East Africa around 1912

Birger Barnabas Lindberg was the son of the surveyor Alexander Barnabas Lindberg (1830–1905). After attending the Lyceum in Vyborg, he began studying at the University of Helsinki in 1897, graduating with a BA in 1902 and an MA in 1903 . Shortly thereafter, he enrolled at the Freiberg Mining Academy , where he received his diploma as a mining engineer and surveyor in 1904 .

He initially worked as an engineer in Ceylon and the Dutch East Indies . Finally, around 1912, he became deputy head of the Sekenke gold mine of the Kironda Gold Mining Society in German East Africa .

Lindberg wrote his experiences in the Dutch East Indies in 1910 under the title Sumatra: reseskildringar (German: Sumatra: Reiseberichte ). About the time in German East Africa he reported u. a. in Terra , the journal of the Finnish Geographical Society.

Fonts

Sumatra: reseskildringar, af en landsman (= Kurirens följetongsbibliotek, No. 2 (1910)), Helsinki 1910.
Fraan det inre af Afrika , in: Terra. Suomen maantieteellisen seuran aikakauskirja, 1914, No. 1, pp. 267-284.

Web links

Entry on Lindberg in the register of the University of Helsinki

Individual evidence

↑ Yearbook for the Saxon Mining and Metallurgy, Vol. 1905, pp. 279–280.
↑ Cf. Bruno Edler von der Planitz to members of the supervisory board of the Central African Mining Society [parent company of the Kironda Gold Mining Society], letter v. 07.03.1912, in: BArch R1001 510-513, Bl. 188-189, here: Bl. 188; In the same files there are further reports by and about Lindberg.

personal data
SURNAME	Lindberg, Birger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lindberg, Birger Barnabas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish mining engineer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vyborg
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1940
Place of death	The hague

[1] Yearbook for the Saxon Mining and Metallurgy, Vol. 1905, pp. 279–280.

[2] Cf. Bruno Edler von der Planitz to members of the supervisory board of the Central African Mining Society [parent company of the Kironda Gold Mining Society], letter v. 07.03.1912, in: BArch R1001 510-513, Bl. 188-189, here: Bl. 188; In the same files there are further reports by and about Lindberg.