♂ August Aleksander JÄRNEFELT
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Lieutenant-General, Governor, Chairman of the Consultative Committee on Defence; ardent champion of the Finnish language; b. Tohmajärvi, 2ndApril 1833. Attended the upper elementary school of Savonlinna and graduated from the Finnish Cadet College. On 25th August 1853 he was ordered to attend Michailovsky Artillery School in St Petersburg, then tothe Russian Artillery Academy at the end of the same year. After completing the course for commissioned officers, he was transferred to thestaff of the Inspector of Artillery on 23rd June 1855. On 6th September 1856 he was sent to Nicholayevsky Academy, and at the end of the year he was transferred to the geodetic division of the Academy. At thesame time he worked at the astronomical observatory of Pulchova. He was promoted to second captain, and on 25 April 1860 sent to a topographical division which did astronomical work in Finland. During the following decade he was in charge of various topographicalsurveys in Finland as far north as in Lapland. From time to time he also worked as an assistant at the Pulchova observatory. He also lectured on geodesy and astronomy at the general staff. He was promoted to colonel in 1868. On 1st April 1870 he was appointed chief of the FinnishDivision of the Russian Topographic Corps . He participated in the war between Russia and Turkey in 1877-78 and was in charge of the mapping of conquered territory. He was promoted tomajor-general on 29th April 1878, when he entered the service of the National Survey Board in St Petersburg. He returned to Finland in 1881and was in charge of the survey for another couple of years. On 27th October 1883 he was appointed Governor of the County of St Michael, but very soon, on 24th January 1884, became Governor of the County of Kuopio. On 11th September 1888 he was promoted to lieutenant-general, and on 8th November 1888 he was transferred to the governorshipof Vaasa. While holding this position he was appointed to the Senate of Finland in the summer of 1894. He was chairman of the Consultative Committee on Defence until his death. He died of a stroke in Helsinki on 15th April 1896.
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- KATZ - Flößerfamilien in Pforzheim und im Murgtal
- EIDENBENZ - Bereich der evangelischen Theologen in Württemberg
- EBERS - Jüdische Familien in Berlin (Ephraim, Itzig. Mendelssohn)
- MICHAUD - Schweizer Familie aus Vevey und Umgebung / Aarau / Zofingen
- FLUEGGEN - Ein Genremaler aus Köln
- BENDER - Eine Familie aus dem Taunus
- WEIL - Jüdische Familien aus Harburg und Umgebung
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