Nils Johan Schjander

Nils Johan Schjander (1859–1903) was a Norwegian engineer and a member of the movement known as the Kristiania Bohemians.[1] 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).[2] For the Kristiania Bohemians, Patagonia was a promised land where several dreamed of creating a free state.[3] Schjander was involved in surveying and mapping Patagonia on behalf of the Argentine Southern Land Company between 1889 and 1891.[4]

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

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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