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Johan Jakob Nervander
* 1805 Nystad, Finland
+ 1848 in Helsingfors, Finland
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Johan Jakob Nervander was a Finnish poet, physicist and meteorologist.
During the period 1832-1836 Nervander went on a long journey to central and southern Europe,
by a scholarship for travelling awarded by the Royal Academy of Turku.
During this journey he became interested in geomagnetism
upon meeting Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauss in Göttingen on his travels in Central Europe.
He was the first director of the Geomagnetic Observatory of Helsinki.
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