About: Gustaf Flink

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Gustaf Flink, born 18 January 1848 in Ås Parish, Skaraborg County, died 11 January 1931, was a Swedish mineralogist. Flink received training as a primary school teacher and graduated in Gothenburg in 1869. In 1871 he received a teaching position in Stockholm. He accompanied Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on his expedition to Greenland, during which he collected minerals and petrified plants on Iceland in 1883. He returned to Iceland in 1893. On behalf of a Royal Danish geological and geographical commission he made mineralogical investigations in southern Greenland in 1897.

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  • Gustaf Flink, born 18 January 1848 in Ås Parish, Skaraborg County, died 11 January 1931, was a Swedish mineralogist. Flink received training as a primary school teacher and graduated in Gothenburg in 1869. In 1871 he received a teaching position in Stockholm. He accompanied Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on his expedition to Greenland, during which he collected minerals and petrified plants on Iceland in 1883. He returned to Iceland in 1893. On behalf of a Royal Danish geological and geographical commission he made mineralogical investigations in southern Greenland in 1897. He was assistant at the mineralogical department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History from 1905 to 1916. In the 1910s and 1920s he primarily studied the rich and varied mineral deposits in the Långban area, and described many previously unknown minerals, for example Synchysite-(Ce) and . Flink was awarded an honorary doctorate by Uppsala University in 1900. The mineral was named in his honor. (en)
  • Gustav Flink è stato un mineralogista svedese. Noto per aver scoperto nove nuove specie di minerali a in Groenlandia e per il suo interesse a livello mineralogico sulla località di Långban in Svezia. (it)
  • Gustaf Flink, född 18 januari 1849 i Ås socken, Skaraborgs län, död 11 januari 1931, var en svensk mineralog. Flink avlade folkskollärarexamen i Göteborg 1869 samt blev lärare vid Stockholms folkskolor 1871. Han åtföljde Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld på Svenska Grönlandsexpeditionen 1883 till Island för insamlande av mineral och växtfossil och besökte samma ö 1893. Av danska Kommissionen for ledelsen af geologiske og geografiske undersøgelser i Grønland hade han 1897 i uppdrag att anställa mineralogiska undersökningar på Sydgrönland. Han var 1905-16 assistent vid Naturhistoriska riksmuseets avdelning för mineralogi. Därefter ägnade han sig så gott som uteslutande åt de enastående fyndorterna inom Långbans gruvfält i Värmland. Han publicerade en lång rad uppsatser i olika vetenskapliga tidskrifter. Han promoverades till filosofie hedersdoktor vid Uppsala universitet 1900. Mineralet är uppkallat efter honom. (sv)
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  • Gustav Flink è stato un mineralogista svedese. Noto per aver scoperto nove nuove specie di minerali a in Groenlandia e per il suo interesse a livello mineralogico sulla località di Långban in Svezia. (it)
  • Gustaf Flink, born 18 January 1848 in Ås Parish, Skaraborg County, died 11 January 1931, was a Swedish mineralogist. Flink received training as a primary school teacher and graduated in Gothenburg in 1869. In 1871 he received a teaching position in Stockholm. He accompanied Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on his expedition to Greenland, during which he collected minerals and petrified plants on Iceland in 1883. He returned to Iceland in 1893. On behalf of a Royal Danish geological and geographical commission he made mineralogical investigations in southern Greenland in 1897. (en)
  • Gustaf Flink, född 18 januari 1849 i Ås socken, Skaraborgs län, död 11 januari 1931, var en svensk mineralog. Flink avlade folkskollärarexamen i Göteborg 1869 samt blev lärare vid Stockholms folkskolor 1871. Han åtföljde Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld på Svenska Grönlandsexpeditionen 1883 till Island för insamlande av mineral och växtfossil och besökte samma ö 1893. Av danska Kommissionen for ledelsen af geologiske og geografiske undersøgelser i Grønland hade han 1897 i uppdrag att anställa mineralogiska undersökningar på Sydgrönland. Han var 1905-16 assistent vid Naturhistoriska riksmuseets avdelning för mineralogi. Därefter ägnade han sig så gott som uteslutande åt de enastående fyndorterna inom Långbans gruvfält i Värmland. Han publicerade en lång rad uppsatser i olika vetenskapliga tidskrifte (sv)
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