Henrik Johan Holmberg


Henrik Johan Holmberg or Heinrich Johann Holmberg was a Finnish naturalist, geologist and ethnographer. He was the first recorder of the Awa'uq Massacre in the Russian America of Shelikhov-Golikov Company. Henrik Holmberg followed in 1851 to document an evolved origin story and several other stories as told by Arsenti Aminak.
In 1839 he became a student of the Mining Inspectorate of Finland, in 1841 was registered as an extra conductor and in 1850 went to pan for gold to Russian America. There Holmberg assembled a rich collection of natural history specimens and studied local languages and ethnography of Alaska Natives. After his return to Finland in 1852 he issued "Etnographische Skizzen über die Völker des russischen Amerika", later - Mineralogischer Wegweiser durch Finland and Materialien zur Geognosie Finlands. Holmberg worked in the historical museum of the Helsinki University and published a description of the Finnish archaeological finds from the Neolithic and Bronze Age, List and illustrations of Finnish antiquities, the first detailed work on this subject.

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Original publications

Geognostische Bemerkungen auf einer Baidarkenfahrt um die Insel Kadjak: Augeführt im Sommer 1851 Ethnographische Skizzen über die Völker des russischen Amerika I–II Mineralogischer Wegweiser durch Finnland I–II Materialier till Finlands geognosi I–II Förteckning och afbildningar af finska fornlemningar I–II
  • ''Katalog öfver Kejserliga Alexanders-Universitetets Etnografiska Samlingar''