> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 765](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355852) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7024-1) LSID 7024-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156749) QID Q156749 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Nordenskiöld, \[Nils\] Adolph Erik \[von\] (1832-1901), Finnish-born Swedish explorer, geographer and geologist; e.g. leader of the Vega-Expedition (1878-1880) which discovered the Northeastern passage around N. Asia **Abbreviated name**: *Nordenskiöld* \[standard form in IPNI: *Nordensk.*\] #### Herbarium and types The plants on the Vega-Expedition were mostly collected by the other members of the Vega party (Sven Berggren, 1837-1917; Frans Reinhold Kjellmann, 1846-1907). Some bryophytes collected by N are at [[Collection H|H]]; other material is at [[Collection K|K]]; his plant fossils are at [[Collection S|S]]-PA. The manuscripts and letters are at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, some letters in Helsinki University Library. #### Bibliography and biography BM 3: 1442-1443 (q.v. e.g. for travelogues and geological publications), 7: 933; Kleppa p. 290; Nordstedt p. 24; Saelan p. 343-344; TL-2/3695, see F. R. Kjellmann. - Andrews, H. N., The fossil hunters 264-266. 1980. - Anon., Hedwigia 40(6): (204). 1901 (d. 13 Aug 1901). - Borodin, J., Trav. Mus. bot. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. 4: 83-84, 203. 1908. - Elfving, F., Acta Fauna Fl. fenn. 50: 223. 1921. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 277. 1977. - Häkli, E. et al., A. E. Nordenskiöld, Catalogue of an exhibition held at Helsinki City Hall, 23 Aug-17 Oct 1979; see also Mickwitz & Mickkavaara, 1979. - Hamberg, A., Centralbl. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont. 1903: 161-175, 193-210. (biogr., b. 18 Nov 1832, Helsingfors). - Hulth, J. M., Ymer 22: 277-303. 1902 (bibl., list of biographies, q.v. for much further information). - Jaatinen, S., Nordenskiöld-samfundets Tidskrift 39: 5-15. 1979 (100 yrs Vega; portr.). - Jackson, B. D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 49. - Kish, G., Geogr. J. 134: 487-505, *pl. 5, 6*. 1968. (lecture and discussion; portr.). - Mickwitz, A. M. & L. Miekkavaara, The A. E. Nordenskiöld collection in the Helsinki University Library, annotated catalogue of maps made up to 1800. Vol. 1, atlases A-J, Helsinki, Stockholm, 1979, with an introduction by E. Häkli on Nordenskiöld, p. ix-xxviii. - Nathorst, A. G., Bot. Centralbl. 28: 173-178. 1886 (reviews the botany of N's Den andra Dicksonska Expeditionen till Grönland 1883, 547 p., 1885); Ymer 22: 141-206 (on N as polar explorer), 207-224 (on N as geologist). 1902. - Palmén, J. A., Fennia 19(4): 1-16. 1902. - Sjögren, Hj., Geol. För. Stockholm Förh. 34: 45-100. 1912 (bibl.). - Taton, R. et al., Science in the 19th century 556. 1965. - Wieselgren, H., Ymer 22: 109-139. 1902 (biogr., portr.). - Zittel, K. A. von, Hist. geol. palaeontol. 150, 233. 1901. #### Handwriting Ymer 22: 140. 1902. #### Memorial publication Ymer 22(2): i, 109-303, folded map. 1902. ### Publications ##### n.6859. Den andra Dicksonska expeditionen till Grönland **Title** *Den andra Dicksonska expeditionen till Grönland*dess inre isöken och dess ost-kust utförd år 1883 under befäl af A. E. Nordenskiöld. Stockholm (F. & G. Beijers Förlag) \[1885\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Andr. Dicks. exped.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1885, p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-546, 5 maps. *Copy*: FI. – Botany on p. 183-184, 191-192, 195, 264-266, 272-274, 278-284, 286-289 (by A. Nathorst), 293, 329, 330-332, 342, 344, 346, 359-360, 424-425 (by A. Berlin) (rev. see Nathorst 1886). *Note*: Nordenskiöld's main description of the Vega Expedition, *Vega färd kring Asien och Europa*,Stockholm 1880-1881, 2 vols, also contains many botanical notes; for a list see Saelan p. 343. For bibl. details see Hulth 1902.