Johan Jakob Nervander

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Johann Jakob Nervander, around 1840.
Finnish postage stamp from 1955 with the portrait of Johan Jakob Nervander.

Johan Jakob Nervander (born February 23, 1805 in Nystad , † March 15, 1848 in Helsingfors ) was a Finnish poet, physicist and meteorologist.

Life

After studying at the Academy in Turku , where he befriended Johan Ludvig Runeberg , he invented a galvanometer for small electrical currents, which made him famous. He was the first director of the Helsinki Magnetic Observatory.

Nervander was one of the founding members of a number of different associations. These included the Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica , the Finnish Society for Literature and the Finnish Society of Sciences .

literature

  • Toimittanut Per Schybergson: Totuuden nimessä: Kaksitoista merkittävää Suomen Tiedeseuran jägä. Suomen Tiedeseura (Finnish Science Society), 1998. ISSN  0783-5892 (Finnish)
  • Torsten Steinby : Nervander Johan Jakob (1805–1848). Föreningen Konstsamfundet, Helsinki 1991. (Swedish)
  • Nervander, 1st Johan Jakob, 1904–1926 . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 19 : Mykenai-Norrpada . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 796 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Johan Jakob Nervander  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ras.ru From the correspondence of the Finnish scientist Johann Jakob Nervander . In: Journal of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1955, № 3, p. 90, (Russian) accessed March 7, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Nervander, Johan Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish poet, physicist and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Uusikaupunki , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1848
Place of death Helsinki , Finland