Jacob Fellman – the botanising priest

• Main Author: Väre, Henry
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 2012
• Subjects: Finn; Kola Peninsula; Norway; Fennoscandia; Finnmark; kola peninsula; Lapponia; Northwest Russia; Utsjoki
• Online Access: https://journal.fi/msff/article/view/6603

Amateur botanist Jacob Fellman (1793–1875), priest of northernmost Finland at Utsjoki in 1820– 1831, was the first Finn to study the flora of northernmost East Fennoscandia. He did several long expeditions to Lapponia inarensis (Finland), to East Finnmark (Norway) and to the western Kola Peninsula r...