Jakob Frans Oskar Wasastjerna (1819–1889) was a nineteenth-century
Finnish-Swedish historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
, genealogist and
author
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"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
. He was the father of
Karl Oskar Wasastjerna (1853–1923)
Publications
Tull-taxa för Storfurstendömet Finland å såväl import- som export-artiklar(1863)
Ättar-taflor öfver den på Finlands riddarhus introducerade adeln(1880)
Lifgardets finska skarpskyttebataljons officerare och civile tjenstemän(1887)
Finnish writers
Finnish genealogists
1819 births
1889 deaths
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