Henrik Johan Holmberg or Heinrich Johann Holmberg (3 January 1818 in

Kökar Kökar () is an island municipality to the south-east of the Åland archipelago, Finland. It is also one of the municipalities of Åland. It is reachable by boat from Långnäs on Åland or from Galtby with access to mainland Finland. The munici ...

– 23 December 1864 in

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

) was a

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

naturalist,

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althou ...

(

mineralogist Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the proces ...

) and

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

. He was the first recorder of the

Awa'uq Massacre The Awa'uq Massacre Sven Haakanson, Jr. (2010)"Written Voices Become History" In ''Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists''. George Nicholas (editor). Left Coast press, Inc., 2010 or Refuge Rock Massacre, or, more recently, as the Wounde ...

in the

Russian America Russian America (russian: Русская Америка, Russkaya Amerika) was the name for the Russian Empire's colonial possessions in North America from 1799 to 1867. It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States, but a ...

Shelikhov-Golikov Company The Shelikhov-Golikov Company (SGC) was a Russian fur trading venture, founded by Irkutsk entrepreneurs Grigory Shelikhov and Ivan Larionovich Golikov in 1783. Formed in Eastern Siberia during the 1780s along with several competing companies, th ...

.Holmberg, Johann Heinrich: "Ethnographic Sketches of the Peoples of Russian America." ''Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae''. Vol. 4 (1856), Vol. 7 (1863), (Helsinki). Translated by Richard A. Pierce. Alaska Division of State Libraries, 1974Heinrich J. Holmberg (1985), ''Holmberg's Ethnographic Sketches''. Translated by Marvin W. Falk, edited by Fritz, Limestone Press, Fairbanks Henrik Holmberg followed in 1851 to document an evolved origin story and several other stories as told by Arsenti Aminak (his memory of Russian conquest at Awa’uq that Aminak survived as a young boy). 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

. There Holmberg assembled a rich collection of natural history specimens and studied local languages and ethnography of

Alaska Native Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a numbe ...

s (as ''Die Konjagen'' = Koniag

Alutiiq The Alutiiq people (pronounced in English; from Promyshlenniki Russian Алеутъ, "Aleut"; plural often "Alutiit"), also called by their ancestral name ( or ; plural often "Sugpiat"), as well as Pacific Eskimo or Pacific Yupik, are a sout ...

of Kodiak, ''Die Thlinkithen'' =

Tlingit The Tlingit ( or ; also spelled Tlinkit) are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their language is the Tlingit language (natively , pronounced ),

, ''Die Thnaina'' = Dena'ina of Kenai). After his return to Finland in 1852 he issued "Etnographische Skizzen über die Völker des russischen Amerika" (in ''Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae''. 1856: Vol. 4, 1863: Vol. 7), later - ''Mineralogischer Wegweiser durch Finland'' (1857) and ''Materialien zur Geognosie Finlands'' (1858). 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'' (1863), the first detailed work on this subject.

Taxonomic honors

*'' Trachypachus holmbergi'' Mannerheim, 1853.Bousquet, Yves (2012). Catalogue of ''Geadephaga'' (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico. In ''

ZooKeys ''ZooKeys'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering zoological taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography. It was established in 2008 and the editor-in-chief is Terry Erwin (Smithsonian Institution). It is published by Pensoft Publ ...

'', 245: 1–1722. (''Trachypachus holmbergi'' Mannerheim, 1853: 119. Type locality: «ad ostia fl

men A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chrom ...

Kaktnu Kenai Riverpeninsulae Kenai

laska Lasca (also called Laska or Laskers) is a draughts (or checkers) variant, invented by the second World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941). Lasca is derived from English draughts (American checkers) and the Russian draughts game bashni (T ...

� (original citation). Holotype y monotypylocation unknown (possibly in ZMH). Synonymy established by LeConte (1857c: 31). — Etymology. The specific name was proposed for the Finnish naturalist, geologist, and ethnographer Heinrich enrikJohan Holmberg 818-1864 who visited Russian America in 1850 and 1851 and collected insects.)

Original publications

* ''Geognostische Bemerkungen auf einer Baidarkenfahrt um die Insel Kadjak: Augeführt im Sommer 1851'' (1853) * ''Ethnographische Skizzen über die Völker des russischen Amerika I–II'' (1855–1862) * ''Mineralogischer Wegweiser durch Finnland I–II'' (1857) * ''Materialier till Finlands geognosi I–II'' (1858) * ''Förteckning och afbildningar af finska fornlemningar I–II'' (1859–1863) * ''Katalog öfver Kejserliga Alexanders-Universitetets Etnografiska Samlingar'' (1859)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holmberg, Henrik Johan 1818 births 1864 deaths Finnish ethnographers Finnish archaeologists Historians of Alaska People from Kökar