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Nils Johan Schjander

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This article is about the 19th-century engineer. For his grandson and the 20th-century author, see Nils Johan Schjander (1931–2009).

Nils Johan Schjander (1859–1903) was a Norwegian engineer and a member of the movement known as the Kristiania Bohemians. He is known for having taken part in a journey to Patagonia and writing a diary, published as En reise til Patagonia (A Journey to Patagonia). For the Kristiania Bohemians, Patagonia was a promised land where several dreamed of creating a free state. Schjander was involved in surveying and mapping Patagonia on behalf of the Argentine Southern Land Company between 1889 and 1891.

References

  1. Stubhaug, Arild. 2013. The Mathematician Sophus Lie: It Was the Audacity of My Thinking. Transl. Richard H. Daly. Berlin: Springer, p. 484.
  2. Schjander, Nils Johan. 2000. En reise til Patagonia. Oslo : Forlaget Press.
  3. Bing, Jon. 1980. Fra Maurits C. Hansen til Arne Garborg. Oslo: Gyldendal, p. 184.
  4. Mosnes, Terje. 2000. Bohemen som dro til Patagonia. Dagbladet (November 26).
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